The US government has proposed a legislative package that is designed to improve the country's and its citizens' IT security. The proposal is to substantially update and revise the existing legislation in such fields as data protection and infrastructure security as well as the sanctioning of offenders.
It aims to improve the protection of consumer and government administration systems, and enhance infrastructure security, which is particularly important for the country's industry.

With these measures, US President Barack Obama is fulfilling the promise he made a year ago to make cyber space security a top priority. A fact sheetPDF on the legislative package states that members of both parties in Congress have introduced approximately 50 cyber security bills in the last session of Congress. According to the fact sheet, these bills are a response to repeated intrusions into important systems and to a dramatic increase in cyber crime over the last decade. After reviewing the existing legislation, the US government reportedly identified a need to update this legislation in order to improve system protection. The new legislative proposal is to provide these improvements.

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