
Officials representing the banking, information technology, natural gas and telecommunications industries all generally support a bipartisan draft bill in the House that would mandate that certain critical infrastructure owners and operators report certain confirmed cybersecurity incidents to the Department of Homeland Security. The support from industry for federally-mandated cyber incident reporting is a significant change from recent past arguments that favored continuing a voluntary approach to alerting the government about network breaches. The 33-page draft bill, the Cyber Incident Reporting…