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The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the “Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act” on Tuesday in an attempt to bolster the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure owners in the country.

The new bipartisan legislation, among other things, stipulates entities that experience a cyber incident to report the attacks within 72 hours to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in addition to alerting the agency about ransomware payments within 24 hours.

(Via Hacker News)

I’m keen to read up on this legislation and seeing the analysis. At first blush I see it as benefiting government more than the businesses and organizations that would be bound by the law, if passed.

The US government doesn’t have the best track record on legislation around security. See Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) that was meant for financial oversight but stuck most of the responsibility with IT & security teams.