IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 399 
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Cyber Security Awareness Month 
and raising awareness and enhancing the state of cybersecurity in the 
United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 30, 2013 
Mr. LANGEVIN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the goals and ideals of National Cyber Security 
Awareness Month and raising awareness and enhancing 
the state of cybersecurity in the United States. 
Whereas the use of the Internet in the United States to com-
municate, conduct business, or generate commerce that 
benefits the overall United States economy is ubiquitous; 
Whereas many people use the Internet in the United States 
to communicate with family and friends, manage finances 
and pay bills, access educational opportunities, work re-
motely, shop at home, participate in online entertainment 
and games, and stay informed of news and current 
events; 
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Whereas the exponential growth of these services has led to 
a concomitant increase in the amount of personal data 
stored electronically; 
Whereas the avenues to attack repositories holding these data 
have correspondingly increased and led to significant fi-
nancial and personal privacy losses through theft and 
fraud; 
Whereas the intellectual property, including proprietary infor-
mation, copyrights, patents, trademarks, and related in-
formation, of business, academic institutions, govern-
ment, and individuals are vital to the economic security 
of the United States; 
Whereas the theft of intellectual property in the United 
States likely results in the loss of over $300,000,000,000 
per year, according to the Commission on the Theft of 
American Intellectual Property; 
Whereas this massive illicit activity is facilitated by advanced 
persistent threats and other state and non-state cyber ac-
tors; 
Whereas United States small businesses, which employ a sig-
nificant fraction of the private workforce, increasingly 
rely on the Internet to manage their businesses, expand 
their customer reach, and enhance the management of 
their supply chain; 
Whereas studies have shown that small businesses are fre-
quently the target of cyberattacks due to their less com-
prehensive defenses and that small businesses incur a sig-
nificantly higher per capita cost per cyber incident than 
do larger companies; 
Whereas critical infrastructure systems in the United States 
rely on the secure and reliable operation of information 
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networks to support the United States Armed Forces, ci-
vilian government, energy, telecommunications, financial 
services, transportation, health care, and emergency re-
sponse systems; 
Whereas critical infrastructure owners and operators face a 
growing threat of cyberattack as evidenced by increas-
ingly sophisticated and destructive attacks and the denial 
of service attacks perpetrated on financial institutions; 
Whereas research tools continue to reveal the large number 
of industrial control systems and other critical informa-
tion infrastructure connected to the Internet; 
Whereas nearly all public schools in the United States have 
Internet access to enhance education, with a significant 
percentage of instructional rooms connected to the Inter-
net to provide access to educational online content and 
encourage self-initiative to discover research resources; 
Whereas the number of children who connect to the Internet 
continues to rise, and teaching children of all ages to be-
come good cyber-citizens through safe, secure, and ethical 
online behaviors and practices is essential to protect their 
computer systems and potentially their personal safety; 
Whereas in addition to increasing personal safety and web 
hygiene, cybersecurity education initiatives can foster an 
interest in the discipline that may culminate in matricu-
lation into a cybersecurity occupation helping to ease the 
shortage of qualified professionals; 
Whereas national organizations, policymakers, government 
agencies, private sector companies, nonprofit institutions, 
schools, academic organizations, consumers, and the 
media recognize the need to increase awareness of cyber-
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security and the need for enhanced cybersecurity in the 
United States; 
Whereas coordination between the numerous Federal agencies 
involved in cybersecurity efforts is essential to securing 
the cyber infrastructure of the United States; 
Whereas the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, pub-
lished in February 2003, recommends a comprehensive 
national awareness program to empower all people in the 
United States, including businesses, the general work-
force, and the general population, to secure their own 
parts of cyberspace; 
Whereas the White House’s Cyberspace Policy Review, pub-
lished in May 2009, recommends that the United States 
Government initiate a national public awareness and edu-
cation campaign to promote cybersecurity; 
Whereas ‘‘STOP. THINK. CONNECT.’’ is the national cy-
bersecurity awareness campaign founded and led by the 
National Cyber Security Alliance and the Anti-Phishing 
Working Group as a public-private partnership with the 
Department of Homeland Security to help all digital citi-
zens stay safer and more secure online; 
Whereas the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 
(NICE), led by the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, is the coordinating body for the Federal Gov-
ernment to establish a sustainable, operational, and con-
tinually improving cybersecurity education program to 
enhance the Nation’s cybersecurity and support the de-
velopment of a professional cybersecurity workforce and 
cyber-capable citizens; and 
Whereas the National Cyber Security Alliance, the Multi- 
State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the De-
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partment of Homeland Security, and other organizations 
working to improve cybersecurity in the United States 
have designated October 2013 as the tenth annual Na-
tional Cyber Security Awareness Month in order to edu-
cate the people of the United States about the impor-
tance of cybersecurity: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the goals and ideals of National 
Cyber Security Awareness Month; 
(2) continues to work with Federal agencies, 
businesses, educational institutions, and other orga-
nizations to enhance the state of cybersecurity in the 
United States; 
(3) commends the work of the National Initia-
tive for Cybersecurity Education and all the Federal 
agencies, nonprofits, educational institutions, busi-
nesses, and other organizations that support this ef-
fort; 
(4) recognizes ‘‘STOP. THINK. CONNECT.’’ 
as the national cybersecurity awareness campaign to 
educate people of the United States and help all citi-
zens stay safer and more secure online; and 
(5) congratulates the National Cyber Security 
Alliance, the Multi-State Information Sharing and 
Analysis Center, the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity, and other organizations working to improve cy-
bersecurity in the United States on the tenth anni-
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versary of the National Cyber Security Awareness 
Month. 
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