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Congress Likely to Fill in the Blanks on Obama’s Broad Cybersecurity Vision

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President-elect Barack Obama and key congressional Democrats are in sync in their desire to improve the nation’s cybersecurity. Sketching in the details is likely to be a joint effort. “I absolutely see that much greater attention’s going to be paid to cybersecurity than in the past, both by the current Bush administration and even in past sessions of Congress,” said Rep. Jim Langevin , D-R.I., who chairs the Homeland Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology. So where does Obama plan to focus his cyber-efforts? A close look at his campaign document entitled “Strengthening Homeland Security” reveals an answer — everywhere — that isn’t especially helpful. Obama’s cyberpriorities are so expansive that Democratic lawmakers would be hard pressed to raise a cyber-initiative that couldn’t be grouped under at least one of them.

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