Senate Homeland Security leaders introduce bill combining incident reporting, FISMA reform measures

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) and ranking member Rob Portman (R-OH) have introduced legislation to combine their bipartisan cyber incident reporting measure for critical infrastructure operators with major reforms to the government’s internal info-sharing operations and GSA’s cloud security program.

In a release today, the senators call the bill a “landmark legislative package that would significantly enhance our nation’s ability to combat ongoing cybersecurity threats against our critical infrastructure and the federal government -- particularly in the...