The FBI could be sidelined in new cybersecurity legislation, a top Bureau official told lawmakers Tuesday. And, in the view of America’s most powerful law enforcement agency, that would be a big problem.
In testimony to Congress, Bryan Vorndran, the assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, said that the Biden administration is “troubled” by legislation proposed by the Senate and House Homeland Security committees requiring a wide range of companies to report intrusions to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency but not simultaneously to the FBI.
The House’s annual must-pass defense bill includes language requiring critical infrastructure operators and federal contractors to alert CISA if they are hacked. Similar language is likely to make it into the Senate’s version of the bill. The provision — the result of weeks of negotiations between the leaders of the Senate homeland security and intelligence panels — would represent the most sweeping cyber regulation ever imposed on the private sector.
“We urge Congress to create a national standard for reporting significant cyber incidents and to require that the reported information be shared immediately with the Justice Department,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said during a Nov. 8 news conference announcing actions against ransomware gangs.an Oct.
Spokespeople for the reporting legislation's other chief sponsors did not provide comments on the administration’s call for legislative changes.
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