Industry Pushes White House, Congress for Single Cyber Standard

Industry groups across critical infrastructure sectors urged the US government to harmonize cybersecurity incident-reporting requirements, in comments submitted to the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director.

The groups said better coordination across agencies would alleviate compliance burdens, according to an ONCD report released Tuesday on responses to the office’s request for information. Comments pointed repeatedly to redundant requirements across state and federal agencies. Several stakeholers suggested the federal government should adopt a single framework for incident reporting.

“Duplicative, conflicting, or unnecessary regulations require companies to devote more resources to fulfilling technical compliance requirements without improving cybersecurity outcomes,” the ...