Congress Moves Substitute Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Bill

TENAFLY, N.J. – The House Homeland Security Committee unanimously passed a substitute bill for the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013 last week. The bill now heads to the full House for a floor vote.

Broadly supported by both parties, the current version of HR 3696 gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the responsibility for civilian cybersecurity research and development, incident detection and response, and facilitating the exchange of cyber-threat information between government and the private sector.

If passed, the DHS would be in charge of establishing cybersecurity standards for the federal government and infrastructure networks.

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