(WASHINGTON) — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told Senators on Tuesday he wants them to pass cybersecurity legislation – something he and President Obama have long pushed for but that Johnson said is all the more pressing in light of the most recent OPM hacks.
He talked to reporters after a closed briefing for Senators along with OPM Director Kathy Archuleta on the security breach.
“There’s a need for cyber legislation and I’m hoping that this congress will pass cyber legislation which will give us additional authorities to do the job that we need to do,” Johnson said. “I am concerned that we do everything possible as quickly as possible,” he added.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) expanded a bit more about what Johnson asked for: legislation providing liability protection for companies who share information with the government, ways to incentivize those companies to share information and to force the government to do a better job sharing information with the businesses that are reporting.
Carper also said it was time to implement “Einstein Three” technology in the OPM’s systems, and that the Senate must move on the nomination of an OPM deputy administrator which happened in the fall of last year.
On the scope of the problem, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters, “OPM is having a difficult time completing its forensic work to determine exactly how many records were compromised. We’re hearing conflicting numbers but I would be willing to wager that in the end, it’s going to be significantly more than the 4.2 million Americans that OPM has already admitted records more breached.”
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