Melissa Hathaway's nine cybersecurity bills to watch

Melissa Hathaway -- who led President Obama's 60-day cyberspace review last year -- completed a 31-page report this past week documenting some 40 IT security bills before Congress. The report provides an analysis on the wide range of topics they address including organizational responsibilities; compliance and accountability; data accountability, personal data privacy, data breach handling and identity theft; cybersecurity education, research and development and grants; critical electric infrastructure protection and vulnerability analysis; international cooperation on cybercrime; and procurement, acquisition and supply-chain integrity.

Here are nine bills Hathaway characterized as "legislation to watch," along with her analysis of them.

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