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FBI Wants In On Cyber Incident Reporting Legislation

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 13th, 2022

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FBI Wants In On Cyber Incident Reporting Legislation

Tonya Ugoretz, deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division. LinkedIn photo.

Legislation still being cobbled together within Congress to mandate that certain private sector entities report cybersecurity incidents to the federal government must ensure that the FBI will have real-time notification of any report, an FBI official said on Thursday. Legislation that was being considered by the House and Senate last year directing covered private sector entities to report cyber-attacks against their networks focused on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) receiving the information. The FBI is fine with that…

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