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Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bills, Including Measure To Defend Infrastructure

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021

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Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bills, Including Measure To Defend Infrastructure

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday marked up a number of bipartisan bills, including a measure that would authorize a five-year term for the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s agency that is quarterbacking the federal government’s cybersecurity efforts with civilian agencies and the private sector, and create a bureau in the department to collect and analyze cyber incident data. The Defense of United States Critical Infrastructure Act of 2021 (S. 2491) directs the establishment…

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