Industry coalition proposes ‘central’ elements for incident reporting legislation aimed at critical infrastructure

A coalition of major industry groups is urging lawmakers to make “bidirectional sharing and collaboration” a fundamental part of their cyber incident reporting bills, ahead of a markup this week in the Senate Homeland Security Committee and other proposals pending in Congress.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee will hold a business meeting Wednesday to discuss legislation from Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) and ranking member Rob Portman (R-OH). The bill sets up “critical infrastructure owners and operators to report to...