Senate authorizers' defense policy bill includes cyber incident info sharing provision

By Sara Friedman / July 12, 2023 at 9:57 AM
The Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the fiscal year 2024 defense authorization bill includes measures on cyber incident information sharing and implementing guidance on "memory-safe software programming." The Senate bill would direct the defense secretary to “assign responsibility to the Commander of the Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network to oversee cyber incident reporting and notification of cyber incidents to Department leadership.” The effort will include an alignment of “policy and system requirements to enable the Department...

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