CISA to formally solicit industry feedback on cybersecurity incident reporting rules

guest · Sep 7, 2022

By Suzanne Smalley - September 7, 2022

Federal cyber officials will formally ask industry leaders “in the next couple of days” to help shape the regulatory structure for cybersecurity incident reporting, Jen Easterly, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said Wednesday.

The incident reporting framework follows the new law that President Biden signed in March requiring that critical infrastructure owners and operators to report major cyberattacks to CISA within 72 hours and ransomware attacks within 24 hours.
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CISA has said that it will use the reports to rapidly deploy resources to victims under attack and share information with network defenders.

“This will finally allow us a much better understanding what’s going on across the ecosystem,” Easterly said at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington. “We don’t want to burden industry and we don’t want to burden the federal government with noise either.”
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