A real cyber policy push is unfolding beyond the investigative spotlight

House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) held a hearing this week to help get the cybersecurity policy ball rolling, even as the spotlight is trained on investigations into Russian election meddling and related issues at Congress' two intelligence panels and other committees.

The Russia affair has subsumed cyber policy discussions, perhaps similar to the way in which the Snowden affair intruded on any discussion of cybersecurity from 2013-2015. A couple of reporters attended the McCaul hearing; dozens trooped into...