The Congressional Research Service issued a legal sidebar to lawmakers on March 5, 2014, that questioned whether the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity will be used as a legal benchmark for assessing cybersecurity programs and determining liability in data breach litigation. The Congressional Research Service's legal sidebar is available from Jones Day upon request.
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