The Week Ahead: House, Senate hearings on election security, CFATS, GDPR; SXSW coverage on data issues

A House Appropriations subcommittee will examine election security and federal networks during a hearing this week, while multiple other cyber-related hearings on issues such as chemical security, net neutrality, and artificial intelligence take place, and the South by Southwest tech festival begins its fourth day and continues through the week with discussions on privacy protections and election security, among other data-security concerns, in Austin, TX.

Christopher Krebs, the director of DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will testify at a...