But, it does give the Department of Homeland Security the power to issue decrees to privately owned companies in a cyber emergency.
To this end, the cyber emergency response teams (CERTs) of both countries agreed to further develop their information sharing systems so that they can better cope with fast-evolving cyber threats in advance.
The president would be able to declare a state of cyber-emergency under which he could order covered critical infrastructure (CCI) to do essentially whatever he wants -- without judicial review or congressional approval.
I've been part of cyber-security emergency responses, so part of my thinking was, What can we possibly learn from this?
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act will give President Barack Obama the ability to declare a state of cyber-security emergency, during which he would have full control over internet networks and could isolate the country and its critical national infrastructure from attack for a period of 120 days.
On the other hand, if we can trust the president to declare federal states of emergency think hurricanes and the like why can't we trust him with the ability to declare a "cyber" state of emergency?
If a forecast with a 6-h lead time was provided to users at the cyber level, they could plan emergency responses in advance to prevent or mitigate the impact of the predicted floods.
That incident, on Dec. 23 2015,was the first known hack to take a power grid offline, but the latest assault shows just how vulnerable critical national infrastructure — like power grids, communications and emergency network — are to cyber attacks.
The deployment of wireless sensor networks and mobile ad-hoc networks in applications such as emergency services, warfare and health monitoring poses the threat of various cyber hazards, intrusions and attacks as a consequence of these networks' openness.
[PDF] One vague provision in the bill gave the president the power to "authorize emergency measures to protect the nation's most critical infrastructure if a cyber vulnerability is being exploited or is about to be exploited".
