Bloomberg Law
Jan. 18, 2018, 4:17 PM UTC

State Department Cybersecurity Boosted Under House-Passed Bill

Daniel R. Stoller

A House-passed bill to revamp the State Department’s defunct cybersecurity office is an effort to increase security policy cooperation with international allies.

The House Jan. 17 passed by voice vote the Cyber Diplomacy Act ( H.R. 3776). The measure would create an Office of Cyber Issues to replace the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues dissolved by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in 2017. The office would be run by a presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed ambassador who would report directly to the undersecretary of political affairs.

The bill, sponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) ...

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