The Internet Kill Switch is back, and in more ways than one. WSJ reports the first development, which comes from 3 U.S senators. Joe Lieberman (I, Conn.), Susan Collins (R, Maine.) and Tom Calpers (D, Del.) today introduced the “Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act of 2011″. The bill is meant to establish a cyberattack strategy and defense governmental authority in the executive branch, thus killing the internet kill switch.

“Mr. Lieberman addressed critics of an earlier version of the bill in a separate statement, saying that “there is no so-called ‘kill switch’ in our legislation… The ‘internet kill switch’ debate has eclipsed discussion of actual, substantive provisions in this bill, [which establishes] a new national center to prevent and respond to cyber attacks.”

The Office of Cyberspace Policy would be under both legislative and judicial oversight, and go around an Internet Kill Switch. It’s this element which was used to revoke web-wise freedom of speech in Egypt, and more recently in Bahrain.

Amidst the Bahrain protests, the New York Times reports that data provided by cybersecurity firm Arbor Networks suggest that that one more country utilized an internet kill switch. Arbor senior manager of security research Jose Nazario said inbound and outbound internet traffic in the country is 10-20 percent below normal levels. Nazario continued to say that fluctuations of this scale are only caused by major sporting events or calamities, and noted that the most likely case is that Bahrain is blocking off its internet connection.

“But Jillian York of Harvard, project coordinator for the OpenNet Initiative, said that the findings were consistent with reports that Bahrainis had been blocked from various sites, including YouTube and Bambuser.”

Cybersecurity is a key subject in the corporate scene as well. At the RSA 2011 conference, deputy secretary of defense William Lynn’s keynote. He noted the military should extend its technological shields to the private sector, which raised a few question marks.

In addition to the deputy secretary’s keynote, Cisco’s Security Technology Business Unit VP and general manager Tom Gillis discussed that tech policy needs to change when it comes to enterprise 2.0 and employee endpoints/devices.  Web & mobile security were also heavily discussed at the RSA event, as the new world seeks understanding of its changing mechanisms, issues and beyond.