Congress takes broad swipes at cyber issues, with mixed results

Congress in recent days has attacked cybersecurity challenges on multiple fronts — a response that fits the broad, diverse nature of cyber issues, but also highlights the difficulty policymakers have in advancing actual solutions.

Multiple congressional panels held hearings last week on topics including the Equifax hack affecting 143 million Americans, the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber mission, and securing the emerging “Internet of Things” — that web of interconnected consumer and industrial devices that makes everything from televisions to traffic lights a potential cyber attack surface.