House Homeland Security approves bill to create task force led by CISA, FBI addressing cyber threats from China

The House Homeland Security Committee has advanced in a voice vote a bill to create an interagency task force co-led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to address cyber threats from China.

“The Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act is an important step to confront escalating cybersecurity threats from the Chinese Communist Party and its state-sponsored cyber threat actors,” Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) said at an April 9 markup on the bill. Ogles introduced the bill with...