April 23, 2015
The Honorable Ron Johnson
Chairman
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Chairman Johnson:
Thank you for your recent letter seeking comments on S. 754, the "Cybersecurity Information
Sharing Act of 2015."
We commend the Senate and House Congressional leadership for taking steps to confront the challenge posed by cybersecurity threats, which are increasing in severity and frequency. The risk
has extended beyond the theft of data to attacks against physical assets, particularly involving critical infrastructure. Neither industry nor the federal government can combat these threats alone.
We believe that enactment of legislation is critical to improving our cybersecurity defenses, and we urge speedy legislative action. Specifically, cybersecurity legislation should:
1) Ensure all business-to-government sharing is voluntary - similar to the approach undertaken by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
2) Provide strong liability protections for businesses when sharing and receiving cyber threat information.
3) Emphasize more government-to-business sharing of cyber threat information to strengthen the ability of the private sector to combat these threats through real-time identification, detection, and mitigation.
4) Include robust and reasonable privacy protections to protect individual privacy while also preserving commitments businesses make to customers and other third parties.
As this and other similar legislation works toward conference between the Senate and House, please do not hesitate to contact us if we can provide any further assistance.
Respectfully,
3M Company
Senior Vice President,
Legal Affairs & General Counsel
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Peter J. Beshar
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Accenture plc
Julie Spellman Sweet
General Counsel,
Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer
Microsoft Corporation
Bradford L. Smith
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Legal and Corporate Affairs
Aetna Inc.
William J. Casazza Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Company
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Morgan Stanley
Eric F. Grossman
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Edward S. Knight
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and
Chief Regulatory Officer
American International Group, Inc.
Executive Vice President & General Counsel Legal, Compliance, Regulatory & Governmental Affairs
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Sheila C. Cheston
Corporate Vice President & General Counsel
Archer Daniels Midland Company
D. Cameron Findlay
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Jeffrey C. True
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Bank of America
Gary G. Lynch
Global General Counsel
Raytheon Company
Frank R. Jimenez
Vice President and General Counsel
BD
Jeffrey S. Sherman
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Larry E. Thompson
Vice Chairman and General Counsel
BlackRock, Inc.
Matthew J. Mallow
Senior Managing Director and General Counsel
Thomson Reuters
Deirdre Stanley
Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and Board Secretary
Cisco
Mark Chandler
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Tyco
Judith A. Reinsdorf, Esq.
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Evercore Partners, Inc.
Senior Managing Director and General Counsel
Craig L. Silliman
Executive Vice President, Public Policy & General Counsel
FedEx Corporation
Christine P. Richards Executive Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary
Xerox Corporation
Don H. Liu
Corporate Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Ford Motor Company
David G. Leitch
Group Vice President & General Counsel
General Dynamics Corporation
Gregory S. Gallopoulos
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
General Electric Company
Brackett B. Denniston, III
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Hewlett-Packard Company
John F. Schultz
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary
Honeywell International Inc.
Katherine L. Adams
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Robert L. Katz
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Maryanne R. Lavan
Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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