No New Cybersecurity Regulations Needed, ISPs Tell U.S. Lawmakers

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No New Cybersecurity Regulations Needed, ISPs Tell U.S. Lawmakers

By CircleID Reporter
March 08, 2012, 6:53 pm PST Views: 7,332 Add Comment

A group of ISPs on wednesday told U.S. Congress that passing new cybersecurity rules affecting broadband and mobile service providers is counterproductive and should be resisted. Jason Livingood, vice president of Internet systems engineering at Comcast, during a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee’s communications subcommittee, said: ISPs have “strong incentives” to secure their networks and invest heavily in cybersecurity because of competition. “Attempting to impose uniform cybersecurity solutions could actually be counterproductive, by enabling an attacker that cracks a single solution to compromise multiple systems, and by slowing down or constraining our ability to rapidly develop innovative cybersecurity solutions.”

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