Key lawmakers offer bipartisan cyber agenda in wake of Trump executive order

Two leading congressional voices on cybersecurity, on opposite sides of the political aisle, have laid out a bipartisan agenda for addressing such emerging threats as botnets, the Internet of Things and boosting the nation's deterrence posture, in the wake of President Trump's executive order that calls on the federal government to assess and mitigate its data-security risks.

House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, struck a distinctly bipartisan...