Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010; By: Will Merritt

Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010
This act was approved in Congress in response to the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Amends needed to be made in order for the security of cyberspace information. Under this act that is sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman and co-sponsored by Senator Thomas Carper and Senator Susan Collins, the president must approve a Director of Cyberspace Policy. The act also establishes the National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC), the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), and the National Cybersecurity Advisory Council. On a national level, this act is for the protection of information regarding cyberspace.
Most of the bill in general requires the NCCC director to authorize or approve of some legal action that is connected to cybersecurity. The director must also collaborate with the director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on security detail. This ensures that on a national security level the cyberspace information will not be leaked to outside sources in any way. If there is a breach of national cybersecurity, the NCCC director has already established US-CERT and a Federal Information Task Force. These security forces will always be trained and ready to be enforced because the agency will hire an Inspector General that assesses the effectiveness of the security agencies. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the NCCC director will train the workers for these cybersecurity teams so that they can be ready for the federal government to assign cybersecurity missions. All of the protocols that are taken from the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 are to ensure that the federal, military, and intelligence information are kept safe from criminal activities such as terrorism, foreign intelligence agencies, and unlawful programs.
This act also says that rights of the citizens will always be present. The NCCC director will uphold the civil liberties and privacy of U.S. citizens in any case. Whenever national information is stored in a cyberspace database, the NCCC director will advise and outline security measures for the safe keeping of the important information. The rights of the citizens will be preserved along with necessary measures for keeping national cyber information.