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Message to presidential commission: Manufacturers must be held accountable for cybersecurity

By Rick Weber / July 20, 2016

A leader in the emergency response community for industrial control systems has urged a presidential commission on cybersecurity to recommend policy initiatives – both standards and outreach – to hold manufacturers responsible for securing the data of increasingly interconnected products.

“We must get to the point where manufacturers of all devices are held accountable for the cybersecurity of their devices – in accordance with rational risk assessment methods and the intended use of the product,” Marty Edwards, director of the...


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