The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee...
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved two bills aimed at improving the federal government’s information security and cybersecurity info sharing, in a Wednesday markup (http://1.usa.gov/1mxf1pf). The Federal Information Security Modernization Act (S-2521) is intended to “move agencies…
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away from paperwork-heavy processes toward real-time and automated security,” while further explicating the roles of different agencies in this process, the committee said. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) (S-2519) Act is intended to set in stone the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity responsibilities and facilitate cyberthreat information sharing. Before passing the bill, the committee adopted an amendment from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., that “sets clear limits on the role of the NCCIC, giving industry the security to share information with authorities without the threat of federal ‘mission creep,'” he said in a written statement Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/1mhvbOy): “The possibility of heavy-handed federal regulation would endanger the private sector’s willingness to share information.” Johnson said he wants to avoid “a maze of assessments, audits and standards that would lag hopelessly behind both technological developments and threats."