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Industry wants to rein in new hack reporting mandates

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Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! This must be a particularly French way to protest. 

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Companies fear overbearing cybersecurity regulations



Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is cosponsoring a bill with stricter cybersecurity regulations. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is cosponsoring a bill with stricter cybersecurity regulations. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The tech industry association ITI laid out a softer vision yesterday of how companies should have to report cyberattacks to the federal government.

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Its goal: to rein in a bipartisan congressional effort to require companies to alert the government when they’re hacked, which would amount to one of the most significant increases in cybersecurity requirements for industry in years.

The various pieces of legislation share a primary goal: To give the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which would receive the reports, better insights about a wave of blistering cyberattacks that have hit critical industry sectors and U.S. government agencies in recent months. CISA would share information from those reports back to industry to help better protect them against future hacks. 

There are two versions of the bills and at least one more in the works. They vary widely, however, in the sorts of cyber incidents companies would have to report to CISA and how quickly the reports would have to come in. 

Industry asks

ITI laid down a marker yesterday for less onorous requirements. The group, which represents Amazon, Google and a slew of other top companies, is pushing for:

  • Only reporting incidents in which companies have verified hackers breached their networks.
  • Giving at least a 72-hour window before those reports must come in.

The list of recommendations is a frontal assault on the first Senate bill, which was sponsored by Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and the committee’s top Republican, Marco Rubio (Fla.), among others. That bill called for reports within 24 hours and would require companies to make such reports even if they aren’t sure hackers actually penetrated their…

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Key Takeaways from Federal R&D Workshop Focused on 5G Testing and Use Cases for Drones and Smart Warehouses | Wiley Rein LLP

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On April 27 and 28, 2021, the Networking & Information Technology Research-Development (NITRD), Advanced Wireless Test Platform (AWTP), and Federal Mobility Group (FMG) hosted a Workshop on the FMG’s Framework to Conduct 5G Testing (Framework), published last November. The purpose of the webinar was to “provide an overview of the process and the testing framework elements needed to conduct 5G testing for different use cases.” The workshop focused on two selected federal 5G use cases: unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones) and smart warehouses.

Below, we highlight several key takeaways from the workshop. 

First, the Framework aims to guide federal agencies in establishing 5G testing capabilities suited to their needs through either: (1) building or leasing a testbed from a carrier-grade equipment manufacturer; (2) using existing external labs and testbeds (e.g., a federal lab, university lab, or in coordination with DoD); or (3) through some combination of the two. 

Second, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is focused on how the Government is using both testbeds and data-driven research to support 5G use and innovation. NSF recently issued a Request For Information on dataset needs “to conduct research on computer and network systems,” with comments due by May 21.

Third, the FMG’s Mobile Security Working Group is focused on FISMA mobility metrics to drive key technologies like mobile threat defense, which aims to advance the overall security posture of the federal government on mobile platforms. 

Fourth, within NITRD and the AWTP there is a Wireless Spectrum R&D interagency working group (WSRD) that has been involved in the whole-of-government effort under the National Strategy to Secure 5G Implementation Plan’s Line of Effort 1.1, to assist with “[r]esearch, development, and testing to reach and maintain United States leadership in secure 5G and beyond.” WSRD’s work related to this Line of Effort remains ongoing.

5G Use Case: Drones

The workshop included several UAS use case panels, which discussed the use of cellular frequencies for drone operations and UAS Traffic Management (UTM) issues.

Christopher Nassif, from the Federal Aviation…

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Android 11 Will Help You Rein In Zombie App Permissions – WIRED

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