The computer and Internet industries need to work together to promote better security online, or lawmakers are likely to regulate the Web, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist said at the Trusted Computing conference Wednesday.
Congress has become impatient with the perceived lack of progress by industry, said Michael O'Neill, a partner with lobbyist firm Preston Gates Rouvelas Ellis & Meeds, adding that government-mandated security guidelines may be coming.
"Help yourselves," O'Neill told industry representatives at Microsoft's security forum. "Fix security soon, or Washington will do it for you." O'Neill represents the pro-encryption tech-industry group Americans for Computer Privacy.
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