FDD’s Montgomery: Creation of cyber statistics bureau at CISA would accelerate impact of incident reporting regime

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency must find ways to digest and use all of the incident and ransomware data that critical infrastructure owners are to provide under an upcoming reporting regime, according to Mark Montgomery, who argues that creating a Bureau of Cyber Statistics will help make the data operational.

Montgomery, currently a senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said, “The incident reporting rule is a great opportunity for CISA and the private sector to work...