House Members Working On Cyber Incident, Breach Reporting Requirements

摘要

After failing to get legislation passed into law last year requiring certain private sector entitiesto disclose that they’ve been a victim of a cyber incident, Democrats and Republicans on theHouse Homeland Security Committee plan to resurrect a bill on incident reporting and othersare working on legislation for reporting on data breaches.Interest in legislation around security incident reporting and data breach notifications picked upsteam last week as industry officials said that the time has come for mandatory reportingrequirements following a successful hack of at least dozens of federal and private sectornetworks using a third-party software vendor. The private sector in the past has discouragedsuch regulations.