Liability Protection, R&D Needed After Cybersecurity Executive Order

Shortly before his first post-reelection State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama signed an executive order consolidating activities—and some critics argue, veiled requirements—for public and private “critical infrastructure” vulnerable to both opportunistic hacking and more advanced persistent threats (APTs) funded by adversarial, often state-backed, organizations. Several major US financial institutions, with their client-facing portals disrupted by al-Qassam, were