FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas before the House Homeland Security Committee on Nov. 15, 2022, in Washington. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The future of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, requests for a speedier implementation of new cyber incident reporting regulations, and a potential congressional authorization for the newly established Cyber Safety Review Board were all floated by members of the House Homeland Security Committee as they pressed Biden administration officials Tuesday on their cybersecurity plans for the coming year.
During the latest House hearing on worldwide threats facing the U.S., Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers that CISA continues to implement legislation passed earlier this year putting new cyber incident reporting rules in place that compel critical infrastructure entities to notify the government when they are hit with a cyberattack or pay a ransomware actor.
The law specifies a two-year window for finalizing those regulations, but Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., one of the House authors of the bill, expressed a desire to expedite that work “so we don’t have to wait years to see results.”
“My hope is that swift implementation will yield important security benefits, eliminate duplicative reporting frameworks and encourage harmonization across the interagency,” said Clarke.
Mayorkas said DHS and CISA must follow statutory rules in the law requiring engagement with the public and private sector prior to finalizing the regulations (something the agency is already doing) over the next 18 months, but that “we have what I would respectfully submit is the preeminent regulatory regime to en ..
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