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President Trump Signs the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act into law. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018 (H.R. 3359, Pub. L. 115–278 (text)) was signed by president Donald Trump on November 16, 2018, to establish the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
Other parts of the bill focused on the establishment of an Office of Cyberspace Policy and on its missions, as well as on the coordination of cyberspace policy at the federal level. If national security were to be severely threatened by a cyber attack, broadband providers, search engines, software firms and other major players in the ...
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 [13] added 6 USC 663(b)(1), which requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to "deploy, operate, and maintain" a capability to detect and prevent cybersecurity risks in network traffic in federal information systems.
In addition, each department and agency of the federal government was responsible for developing its own CIP plan for protecting its portion of the federal government's critical infrastructure. The federal department and agency plans were assimilated with the sector NIAPs to create one comprehensive National Infrastructure Assurance Plan.
The National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013 is a bill that would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct cybersecurity activities on behalf of the federal government and would codify the role of DHS in preventing and responding to cybersecurity incidents involving the Information ...
There are few federal cybersecurity regulations and the ones that exist focus on specific industries. The three main cybersecurity regulations are the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and the 2002 Homeland Security Act, which included the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
National Cybersecurity Protection Act of 2014: To codify an existing operations center for cybersecurity Pub. L. 113–282 (text) 113-283: December 18, 2014 Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014: To amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, to provide for reform to Federal information security Pub. L. 113–283 (text)
On 9 February 2009, the White House announced that it will conduct a review of the nation's cyber security to ensure that the Federal government of the United States cyber security initiatives are appropriately integrated, resourced and coordinated with the United States Congress and the private sector. [62]