Promoting Stronger Cybersecurity 

• Senator Blunt serves as a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and previously served as a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
• Senator Blunt is alarmed by the billions of dollars in losses to consumers, businesses, and the government from cyber-attacks, penetrations, and disruptions 
• Senator Blunt understands the cybersecurity challenge, and has called for a robust and comprehensive look at the way we protect critical infrastructure and other networks from cyber-attacks
• Senator Blunt supported the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which enhances public-private partnerships to combat cyber terrorism and espionage while protecting privacy and civil liberties 

Increasing Data Security and Creating a Consistent Standard for Data Breach Notification

• Senator Blunt knows that more Americans than ever before have their personally identifiable information, such as account information and social security numbers, in electronic form
• Senator Blunt is concerned that a patchwork of different state laws – instead of a single federal law – governs the security of personally identifiable information, as well as the notification to consumers when such information is stolen
• Senator Blunt introduced the Data Security Act to simplify our nation’s patchwork of inconsistent and overlapping laws in order to promote greater security of consumers’ personally identifiable information, and institute a single standard for consumers to be notified if their information is stolen in a data breach