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Mandatory Cyber Incident Reporting Bill Passes Senate

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022

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Mandatory Cyber Incident Reporting Bill Passes Senate

Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would require critical infrastructure owners and operators to report to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within 72 hours of discovering that they’ve been the victim of a cyber incident. The bipartisan bill, which consolidates three pieces of cybersecurity legislation, now goes to the House where there is also broad support. Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), authors of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act (S. 3600), said on Wednesday…

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