Lawmakers have advanced a handful of bills to strengthen the government’s cyber efforts and lock down the country’s electric grid.
The House Homeland Security Committee unanimously approved legislation that would create an advisory group to assist the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in developing and enacting cyber policies. It also endorsed a bill that would require DHS to study the threats unmanned aircraft pose to critical infrastructure.
Additionally, lawmakers gave their stamp of approval to bills that would enhance the government’s ability to share threat intelligence, respond to cyberattacks, and defend the electric grid, through initiatives in the Departments of Homeland Security and Energy.