{"id":98,"date":"2009-07-02T00:50:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T07:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=98"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:26:21","slug":"federal-cybersecurity-license-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Federal CyberSecurity License proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Senator\u00a0Rockefeller IV and Senator Snowe have issued a proposal which includes a federal licensing requirement to be developed by the\u00a0Department of Commerce.\u00a0 The licensing requirement would apply to\u00a0all cybersecurity professionals whom may work near any systems\/networks deemed \"critical infrastructure\" by the President of the United States.\nThe Patriot Act of 2001 defined critical infrastructure as those <em>&#8220;systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitation impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.&#8221; <\/em>\nThe\u00a0Patriot Act of 2001\u00a0identified a number of critical infrastructures: <a title=\"Agriculture\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agriculture\">Agriculture<\/a> and <a title=\"Food\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Food\">Food<\/a>; <a title=\"Water\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Water\">Water<\/a> ; Public Health; Emergency Services; <a title=\"Government\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government\">Government<\/a>; Defense Industrial Base; <a title=\"Information\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Information\">Information<\/a> and Telecommunications; <a title=\"Energy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Energy\">Energy<\/a>; <a title=\"Transport\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transport\">Transportation<\/a> and <a title=\"Shipping\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shipping\">Shipping<\/a>; Banking and <a title=\"Finance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Finance\">Finance<\/a>; Chemical Industry and Hazardous Materials; <a title=\"Mail\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mail\">Post<\/a>; <a title=\"National monuments\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Monument_(United_States)\">National monuments<\/a> and icons; Critical Manufacturing\nIf the guidelines of the Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002 is any indicator, larger implications may lead to the license stipulating mandatory reporting by all\u00a0CyberSecurity Professionals\u00a0<em>of\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman;\">all information, including reports, assessments, analyses, and unevaluated intelligence (i.e.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: NewCenturySchlbk-Roman;\">whether or not such information has been analyzed)<\/span><\/span><\/em>The text of section 7 of the Senate Bill proposal 773 as Introduced in Senate May 29, 2009 reads as such:\n\n\n<div id=\"yield\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2><em>Cybersecurity Act of 2009<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"bill_text\">\n<em>Sec. 7. Licensing and certification of cybersecurity professionals:<\/em>\n<em>(a) IN GENERAL- Within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, <strong>the Secretary of Commerce shall develop or coordinate and integrate a national licensing, certification<\/strong>, and periodic recertification program for cybersecurity professionals<\/em>\n<em>(b) MANDATORY LICENSING- Beginning 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, <strong>it shall be unlawful for any individual to engage in business in the United States<\/strong>, or to be employed in the United States, <strong>as a provider of cybersecurity services to<\/strong> any Federal agency or <strong>an information system or network designated by the President<\/strong>, or the President\u2019s designee, <strong>as a critical infrastructure information system or network, who is not licensed and certified under the program<\/strong>.<\/em>\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"1","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8351,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}