Obama to push for new US cybersecurity legislation
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will renew his call for Congress to pass cybersecurity legislation, including a proposal that encourages companies to share threat information with the government and protects them from potential lawsuits if they do.
The president's proposals are similar to congressional legislation that has been languishing, in part because of privacy concerns. But the White House is hoping that a recent spate of cyberattacks and data breaches - including November's hacking at Sony Pictures Entertainment, which the administration blamed on North Korea - will spur lawmakers to take up the issue in the coming months.
Obama will discuss the legislative proposals Tuesday afternoon in a speech at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center near Washington. The proposals are also expected to be part of his January 20 State of the Union address.
