Cybersecurity News And Notes – July 25, 2016

In Case You Missed It: U.S. Major party platforms address cybersecurity.  The two major parties have released their 2016 election platforms, both of which include cybersecurity planks.  The Republican platform's perspective of cybersecurity is an element of national security and international relations. The platform called for harsh responses to cyber-attacks against American businesses, institutions, and government, applauded the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, and pledged to "explore the possibility of a free market for Cyber-Insurance." The Democratic platform is largely as a continuation of President Obama's cybersecurity policies. It promises to " build on the Obama Administration's Cybersecurity National Action Plan," supporting, for example, the empowerment of a federal Chief Information Security Officer and Obama's establishment of a 12 member Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity within the Commerce Department.