Industry sorts through ransomware, other issues as lawmakers prepare to act on incident reporting

Industry and other cyber policy players are closely watching as House lawmakers move to advance an incident reporting requirement for critical infrastructure operators by amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act, while Senate Homeland Security Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) is emphasizing that legislation must include mandatory reporting of ransomware payments.

House Homeland Security cyber subcommittee Chairwoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY) and full committee ranking member John Katko (R-NY) have offered their incident reporting bill as a proposed amendment to...