Cybersecurity Panel
On January 5, Senator John McCain (AZ-R), who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced that he plans to create a new subcommittee within Armed Services to focus exclusively on cybersecurity. Currently, cyber issues come under the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, which has broad authority over policy relating to intelligence, counterterrorism, and national security. McCain called cybersecurity “too big an issue” to be lumped with other policy matters and said that he wants to see the development of a comprehensive policy to deter and respond to cyberattacks. The new subcommittee will be headed by Senator…
