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Rep. Clarke Plans Bills Mandating Cyber Incident Reporting, Aiding CISA’s Visibility Into Private Sector Networks

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 15th, 2021

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Rep. Clarke Plans Bills Mandating Cyber Incident Reporting, Aiding CISA’s Visibility Into Private Sector Networks

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, & Innovation subcommittee.

The chairwoman of a House cybersecurity panel is developing legislation that would require critical infrastructure owners to report cyber incidents to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and also codify a voluntary pilot program that the agency uses with companies that provide critical capabilities to give it real-time visibility on their networks. The two bills would be “complementary, giving CISA the ability to monitor threats today and also learn how and why they’re successful so we can prevent them…

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