President Obama announced his intentions to make cybersecurity a national priority in May 2009. The proposals include a long-standing call for a national data breach notification law that would standardize the existing patchwork of state laws companies and government entities have to comply with. It also calls for laws that would impose stricter penalties on cybercriminals, and would set mandatory minimum prison terms for intrusions into critical infrastructure targets. There’s little in the proposals that would move the needle significantly on cybersecurity, an analyst says.”]
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