More than 'another study,' advisory panel seeks dramatic changes with new cyber report

The president's advisors on national infrastructure have offered what they see as dramatic and game-changing recommendations for addressing cybersecurity threats to the energy, communications and financial sectors, in a report crammed with proposals that would shake up the way the federal government approaches cyber risk management.

“Why another study?” asked Mike Wallace, the chairman of the President's National Infrastructure Advisory Committee working group that prepared the report, “Transforming the U.S. Cyber Threat Partnership."

Because “the situation is dire,” Wallace...