House Proceeding 10-26-09 on Oct 26th, 2009 :: 1:07:15 to 1:11:55
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Michael C. Burgess: will not be quick, not be easy, but we must never forget. let's hope he has not forgotten. . the speaker pro tempore: mr. burgess of texas. mr. burgess: i thank the speaker. i ask to revise and extend. i come to the floor tonight to talk about cyber security.

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Speech By: Michael C. Burgess

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Michael C. Burgess: we all hear about data breeches, they're so common it seems like you can hardly pick up the newspaper without read being another occurrence and unfortunately the rate at which they're occurring is also increasing. 2009 found that more chronic records were breached in 2008 than in the previous four years

1:07:55 to 1:08:16( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: combined. almost 10 million united states adults were the victims of identity theft in 2008. and these are expensive. a 2009 report found that the average cost of a data breach had risen to $202 per customer from last year's $197. over $600 is lost out of pocket

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Michael C. Burgess: per second to identity fraud, costs consumers and businesses over $52 million a day. examing some of the resources of the breaches, 29% come from the government and military. 28% are from educational institutions, 22% in general business, 13% in health care companies, 8% in banking and credit card and financial services.

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Michael C. Burgess: within the government itself, on the may, 2008, federal security report card, the department of interior, the department of treasury, the department of veterans' affairs and the department of agriculture all scored a failing grade. within the military, the personnel data of tens of thousands of united states soldiers has been downloaded by

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Michael C. Burgess: unauthorized computer users. data included social security numbers, blood types, cell phone numbers, email addresses and the names ofoldiers' spouses and children. a 2006 department of veterans' affairs data breach put almost 30 million veterans' names and addresses and social security numbers at risk. within the retail segment, in

1:09:23 to 1:09:44( Edit History Discussion )

Michael C. Burgess: 2009 a miami man was charged in the largest case of computer crime and identity theft ever prosecuted. he along with two unknown co-conspirators were charged with taking more than 130 million credit card and debit numbers from late 2006 to early 2008. and they did it as an inside job. they reviewed the list of fortune 500 companies, decided

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Michael C. Burgess: who to -- where to aim, they visited the stores to monitor the payment systems used, they placed different programs on corporate networks and the programs intercepted credit card transactions in realtime and transmitted the numbers to computers in the united states, netherlands and the ukraine. an expert said the case provided more evidence that retailers and banks needed to strengthen,

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Michael C. Burgess: needed to harden industry standards and finally educational institutions. as i noted earlier, second only to government and data preaches -- breaches, education breaches. in 2007 the number of data security breaches at colleges and universities increased almost 2/3 from 2006 and the number of educational institutions affected increased

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Michael C. Burgess: by almost 3/4. august of 2005 hackers ste almost 400,000 electronic records of current, former and prospective students in my congressional district at the university of north texas. the hackers got away with names, addresses, telephone numbers, social security account numbers and possibly credit card -- possibly credit card nams.

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Michael C. Burgess: so w 87% of the breaches are considered avoidable if reasonable controls had been in place. madam speer, now is the place for congress to enact a meaningful national standard to protect commercial and national data that's considered leadership to take an active role in ensuring that their systems are secure.

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Michael C. Burgess: federal government subcontractors have that -- that have access to personal information should be required to comply with the same standards as federal agencies and departments. finally we must all be involved from the top down and the bottom up. we must encourage private enterprises to actively manage and rigorously protect the data collection and storm within

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Michael C. Burgess: their institutions. we must make this a priority and congress should take up and pass the house concurrent resolution 193. this bipartisan resolution introduced by myself and charlie gonzalez of texas expresses the sense of congress for the need to pass meaningful legislation to protect commercial and government data from data breaches.

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Michael C. Burgess: there's a lot of disturbing statistics. let's take action now so that