Struggle against cyber crime requires a proper legislation

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation official stated Wednesday that to help law enforcement agencies fight the growth of cybercrime a U.S. law that would require businesses to report data breaches to potential victims is necessary. Jeffrey Troy, chief of the FBI's Cyber Criminal Section said during a cybersecurity discussion in Washington, D.C. that using the information about the data breaches of U.S. businesses, law enforcement agencies could link those attacks to others and potentially stop similar attacks at other organizations. In his speech Troy tried to convince the companies to think beyond their walls when dealing with cybersecurity issues, because attacks used against one company will likely be used against other organizations. So FBI “is really looking forward to getting all this data.”

The data breach notification bills have been pushed by some members of Congress for several years but without any success. Congress still has to pass a federal law although about 45 states have passed their own data-breach notification bills. The Senate Judiciary Committee will try to move the exhaustive cybersecurity bill to the Senate floor this year and the data-breach notification will be a part of it. The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act, sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy, would also limit how data brokers can use personal information and would establish data security rules for interstate businesses that collect personal data.

David Thompson, CIO, Symantec said: “A national data-breach notification law is a top legislative priority for cybersecurity products vendor Symantec. It's difficult for companies to comply with 45 different state laws.”