Cybersecurity and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2013 - Calls for the enactment of bipartisan legislation to improve communication and collaboration between the private sector and the federal government to secure the United States against cyber attack, enhance the competitiveness of the United States and create jobs in the information technology industry, and protect the identities and sensitive information of U.S. citizens and businesses by: (1) enhancing the security and resiliency of public and private communications and information networks against cyber attack; (2) establishing mechanisms for sharing cyber threat and vulnerability information between the government and the private sector; (3) developing a public-private system to improve the capability of the United States to assess cyber risk and prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks against critical infrastructure such as the electric grid, the financial sector, and telecommunications networks; (4) promoting research and development investments and professional training; (5) preventing and mitigating identity theft; (6) enhancing U.S. diplomatic capacity and public-private international cooperation to respond to emerging cyber threats; (7) expanding resources for investigating and prosecuting cyber crimes in a manner that respects privacy rights and civil liberties and promotes U.S. innovation; and (8) maintaining robust protections of the privacy of U.S. citizens and their online activities and communications.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 21 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 21
To secure the United States against cyber attack, to improve
communication and collaboration between the private sector and the
Federal Government, to enhance American competitiveness and create jobs
in the information technology industry, and to protect the identities
and sensitive information of American citizens and businesses.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 22 (legislative day, January 3), 2013
Mr. Rockefeller (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Levin,
Ms. Mikulski, Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. Coons) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs
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A BILL
To secure the United States against cyber attack, to improve
communication and collaboration between the private sector and the
Federal Government, to enhance American competitiveness and create jobs
in the information technology industry, and to protect the identities
and sensitive information of American citizens and businesses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Cybersecurity and American Cyber
Competitiveness Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The country's leading officials in business,
intelligence, and defense affairs agree that malicious state,
terrorist, and criminal actors exploiting vulnerabilities in
information and communications networks and gaps in
cybersecurity pose one of the most serious and rapidly growing
threats to both the national security and the economy of the
United States.
(2) With information technology now the backbone of the
United States economy, a critical element of United States
national security infrastructure and defense systems, the
primary foundation of global communications, and a key enabler
of most critical infrastructure, nearly every single United
States citizen is touched by cyberspace and is threatened by
cyber attacks.
(3) Malicious actors in cyberspace have already caused
significant damage to the United States Government, the United
States economy, and United States citizens, and the threat
continues to grow.
(4) In its 2009 Cyberspace Policy Review, the White House
concluded, ``Ensuring that cyberspace is sufficiently resilient
and trustworthy to support U.S. goals of economic growth, civil
liberties and privacy protections, national security, and the
continued advancement of democratic institutions requires
making cybersecurity a national priority.''.
(5) Leading experts in the private sector and the
government agree that the United States should establish a new
model of public-private collaboration, which fits the realities
of the 21st century, to secure the country against cyber
attack.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that Congress should enact, and the
President should sign, bipartisan legislation to improve communication
and collaboration between the private sector and the Federal Government
to secure the United States against cyber attack, to enhance the
competitiveness of the United States and create jobs in the information
technology industry, and to protect the identities and sensitive
information of United States citizens and businesses by--
(1) enhancing the security and resiliency of public and
private communications and information networks against cyber
attack by nation-states, terrorists, and cyber criminals;
(2) establishing mechanisms for sharing cyber threat and
vulnerability information between the government and the
private sector;
(3) developing a coherent public-private system to improve
the capability of the United States to assess cyber risk and
prevent, detect, and robustly respond to cyber attacks against
United States critical infrastructure, such as the electric
grid, the financial sector, and telecommunications networks;
(4) promoting research and development investments in the
United States information technology sector that create and
maintain good, well-paying jobs in the United States and help
to enhance the economic competitiveness and cybersecurity of
the United States;
(5) promoting cybersecurity and information technology
training to develop the country's next generation of cyber
professionals;
(6) preventing and mitigating identity theft and guarding
against abuses or breaches of personally identifiable
information;
(7) enhancing United States diplomatic capacity and public-
private international cooperation to respond to emerging cyber
threats, including promoting security and freedom of access for
communications and information networks around the world and
battling global cyber crime through focused diplomacy;
(8) expanding tools and resources for investigating and
prosecuting cyber crimes in a manner that respects privacy
rights and civil liberties and promotes United States
innovation; and
(9) maintaining robust protections of the privacy of United
States citizens and their online activities and communications.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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