U.s. president Barack Obama has an executive order signed that critical infrastructure, such as energy and water purification, protection against cyber attacks. Participation is voluntary; companies nothing is required.
President Obama made the executive order Tuesday, well-known, during his State of the Union address. “We know that hackers are the identities of people stealing and in their privémail break”, signed the American political blog The Hill during the speech from the mouth of Obama. “We know that foreign governments and companies use our trade secrets to steal. Now, our enemies also have the ability to use our energy to manipulate, as well as our financial institutions and our luchtverkeersleidingen.”
The executive order requires the digital security of the U.s. critical infrastructure improve. However, there is no question of a duty for critical companies to take part. Earlier, the government is not a law by the Us congress to guide those that had in mind: the Cyber intelligence sharing and protection act. That law was heavily criticized, inter alia because there is no attention for privacy and because the law could be used to copyright infringement on the internet to tackle.
In the executive order of Obama’s focus on privacy; American civil rights activists have a positive effect on the command responded to. The American chamber of commerce is less content with the law. The group representing the interests of companies say against any new form of regulation in the field of digital security. Security experts are disappointed that the order does not continue, and demands on companies, but that is not possible without the Us Congress approval.