Industry stakeholders offer paths to regulatory harmonization at House Oversight hearing

The House Oversight cyber subcommittee heard from stakeholders in the information technology, banking and gas sectors at a Thursday hearing on how to encourage the harmonization of a multitude of cyber regulations from various federal agencies.

“Much of our critical infrastructure is owned and operated by private sector companies,” subcommittee Chairwoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) said at the start of the hearing. Mace called for “strong partnership between the government and private operators of critical infrastructure.”

“Unfortunately,” Mace said, “federal...