Painter, ex-State Dept. cyber chief, praises Senate 5G bill in call for including allies on network security

A bill slated for markup this week in the Senate Commerce Committee offers elements that have been conspicuously missing in U.S. cyber policy – strategic international engagement and long-term investment – according to the State Department’s former coordinator on the issue.

“You want those international partnerships because there's buy-in, there's collective will, and [U.S. allies] might have solutions that we haven't thought of,” said Christopher Painter, who is now a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation....