Congress Passes NIST-Focused Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
The House and Senate passed the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act (S-1353), the fifth cybersecurity bill to pass Congress last week. The bill, originally floated last year but passed Thursday in a pared-back form, codifies the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s…
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authority to develop voluntary cybersecurity standards. NIST released the Version 1.0 Cybersecurity Framework in February and has since sought stakeholder input on how they're using the framework. Obama is likely to sign S-1353 along with four other cybersecurity bills that mostly focused on cybersecurity work within the Department of Homeland Security, an industry lobbyist told us. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson praised Congress Thursday for passing the four DHS-centric cybersecurity bills, which included the National Cybersecurity Protection Act (S-2519).