[HIB]McAfee concerned about DHS standards on cybersecurity

Imposing tough government cybersecurity standards could have a detrimental impact on private sector innovation, according to officials from the network security firm McAfee. McAfee officials told Hillicon Valley on Friday that they support the cybersecurity bill recently introduced by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee but are concerned about the Department of Homeland Security imposing stringent, static cybersecurity requirements on private sector companies. "The government needs to be very careful about imposing too much of a top-down standards process," said McAfee vice president of government relations Tom Gann. "We need to bring products to market very quickly. They need to make sure we can get latest technology."

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