Among the legislative fixes the Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Council is seeking from Congress is the exemption of both mandatory and voluntary cyber incident reporting data from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Credit: Shutterstock.com
(Bloomberg) — The Department of Homeland Security wants Congress and other federal agencies to help it streamline 52 different cyber reporting requirements to protect critical infrastructure and ease regulatory burdens on hacking victims. On Sept. 19, 2023, it released a 107-page report that it hopes will serve as a road map to smooth that process.
More than 30 federal agencies and departments, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Comptroller of the Currency and U.S. Secret Service, have met since June 2022 to hammer out how to reduce regulatory overlap as the federal government grapples with the messy state of cyber reporting rules. They are among members of the Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Council, which was set up as part of a new cyber reporting law passed last year and developed the report recommendations.
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