Senators from both sides of the political aisle introduced new legislation Friday to confront cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the federal government’s information technology procurement and lifecycle process.
The Supply Chain Counterintelligence Training Act, introduced by Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., seeks to establish a counterintelligence training program for federal insiders who work on supply chain risk management to ensure that everyone involved can identify and mitigate threats that arise during government buying.
“America’s adversaries use any means necessary to gain access to valuable and sensitive government information, including possibly inserting compromising code into products or enlisting untrustworthy IT support personnel to exploit government systems,” Peters said in a statement.
The bill aims to create a governmentwide approach to securing information and communications technology.
“Counterintelligence training for the federal workers buying and selling goods and services for the government is critical at a time when our adversaries are seeking every possible entry point to breach our systems and steal information,” Johnson…
