Stakeholders: Senate incident reporting, FISMA bills show commitment to working with industry

Industry stakeholders praised the work of the Senate Homeland Security Committee following a markup Wednesday of two bills designed to address cyber incident reporting for critical infrastructure operators and government agencies, and strengthen CISA’s role in bringing together information on incidents from private and public sector partners.

The committee approved the Cyber Incident Reporting Act of 2021, which sets up a regime to require “critical infrastructure owners and operators to report to CISA within 72 hours if they are...