Telecom executive warns presidential cybersecurity commission on ‘regulatory creep’

From: Inside Cybersecurity

Rick Weber

The presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity should consider streamlining and consolidating government initiatives on securing data and networks, according to a telecommunications executive, who also warns of “regulatory creep” that could undermine public-private partnerships on cybersecurity. “The inherently backward-looking nature of regulation is ill-suited for the challenges of cybersecurity,” Chris Boyer, assistant vice president for global public policy at AT&T, told the commission in written testimony submitted last week at a public hearing in Houston, TX.

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