The Cyberspace Solarium Commission Makes its Case to Congress

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic began to dominate public discourse in the first half of March, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission delivered its report to Congress, detailing a strategy of layered cyber deterrence: a three-pronged plan to reduce the frequency of and the damage wrought by cyberattacks targeting America.

The report’s recommendations and proposals were designed to be turned into legislation, but more than two months passed before the task force got to discuss them in public testimony before lawmakers. Co-chairs Senator Angus King (I-ME) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), and commissioners Suzanne Spaulding and Tom Fanning addressed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee via videoconference on May 13.