OVERNIGHT TECH: Rogers says cyber order could open door for information-sharing bill

To that end, Rogers believes it’s up to Congress to ensure that an information-sharing measure is passed so companies and government agencies can more freely share information about malicious cyber threats with one another. He has been meeting with members to discuss striking an agreement on information-sharing legislation. 

{mosads}”I haven’t walked away from this at all. There’s only one bill that actually passed through a committee and the House floor that has strong bipartisan support, that is this information-sharing piece,” Rogers said, referring to the bill he co-authored with Intelligence Committee ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) that passed through the House this spring, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).

“It would be irresponsible for us to not try to get a deal at least on something that we know will help protect those networks,” he said.

The White House has circulated draft proposals of a cybersecurity executive order with relevant agency officials, and a new version will be sent around to those officials this week.

No updates on cyber, Kyl says: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who had been working on compromise cybersecurity legislation, said Tuesday that lawmakers had not made any progress since the August recess.

“I don’t know how aggressively people are working right now,” Kyl said, noting that he had worked in the past with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

“I regret to say there are not [any updates],” Kyl said.

But he argued that Congress should continue trying to find a path forward, and criticized the administration for drafting an executive order on the issue.

House Homeland Security subpanel to examine making communications networks more resilient: The Emergency Preparedness subcommittee is holding a hearing on Wednesday at 2 p.m. titled “Resilient Communications: Current Challenges and Future Advancements.” Bobbie Stempfley from the Department of Homeland Security and David Turetsky from the Federal Communication Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau will testify on the first witness panel. Their testimony will be followed by another witness panel that includes Kyle Malady, senior vice president of global network engineering and operations at Verizon, and Trey Forgety, the director of government relations for the National Emergency Number Association.

House E&C subpanel to look at mobile apps and jobs: The Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade will examine the mobile application marketplace in a Wednesday morning hearing. The rise of smartphones and tablet computers has led to a boom of start-up app developers in recent years. In a statement, the subcommittee said the app marketplace is “one of the few sectors of the economy where jobs are being created.” TechNet chief executive Rey Ramsey, Association for Competitive Technology Executive Director Morgan Reed and Peter Farago of Flurry are slated to testify. 

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