Update, amendment to boost cybersecurity passes … hoping it’ll start some good news

In an earlier blog post it was talked about where the defense bill was being used to bolster up cybersecurity.

I had recently done some reading, and it looks like it passed. The article is titled Langevin amendment to boost cyber defenses for critical infrastructure wins House approval which is some great news!

An amendment that includes cyber protections to defend “systemically important” critical infrastructure — such as large energy utilities, telecom providers and major financial institutions — won adoption in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday.

I really have a problem with this paragraph though. It says:

Designation will require organizations to disclose risk management strategies for critical assets and supply chain; share and receive threat intelligence with the government; and allow federal agencies to examine operations and assess performance-based security goals.

If you remember this blog post, it talked about how congress.gov was briefly DDOS’ed although they had steps in place to get things back up quickly. And while that was not devistating, we only remind you of the OPM breach and that we later found that a congressional report slammed OPM on their breach. (Blog Post) If that’s not bad enough, isn’t the police some part of government in some capacity? We get their services for free, but they’re getting paid somehow. I’m not clear on how this aspect works, so … someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

We also go back to the supply chain attack of Solar winds and this blog post where someone named Ian Thorton Trump told Solar Winds about a potential breach and they absolutely did nothing about it.

There is plenty more, searching OPM may give you a better target of posts about that particular breach as we have been known to cover tons of breaches so other posts will come up.

There are plenty of linked items within the initial linked article we’re mainly talking about here, but I think this is a step in the right direction. Only time will tell what will happen with this, and I hope that we’ll learn more.

Thanks Cyberscoop for allowing us to read up on this, it is definitely an important topic we need to keep our minds on.

Thanks all for reading, and make it a great day!