Telecom security panel approves report proposing incentives for investments in cyber best practices

The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee has approved a report laying out potential economic incentives to encourage organizations to invest in cyber best practices and advocates for liability protections ahead of the publication of the CISA incident reporting rulemaking.

The report addresses the “challenge the U.S. faces that despite government, standards organizations and other stakeholders creating numerous best practices and standards around cybersecurity, many organizations are either not adopting or poorly implementing them, resulting in the increased threat of likelihood...