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Cyber

Rep. Swalwell Planning Bill To Improve CISA’s JCDC

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023

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Rep. Swalwell Planning Bill To Improve CISA’s JCDC

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Thursday said he will introduce legislation in the coming weeks to better structure a public-private partnership collaborates on urgent cybersecurity needs and is overseen by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to better define its role. The 18-month-old Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) is operating without a charter and “concrete criteria for membership, all of which are essential for the JCDC to provide enduring value,” Swalwell said in his opening remarks at a hearing…

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