Members of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security reintroduced legislation this week to combat growing cyber threats from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the nation’s critical infrastructure sector. The bill would require the federal government to assess and mitigate growing cyber threats to U.S. critical infrastructure originating in China with either the active or tacit support of the CCP.
Identified as the ‘Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act,’ bill and introduced by Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, Mark E. Green, a Republican representative from Tennessee and the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, and Andrew Garbarino, a Republican from New York and chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, the legislation seeks to ensure the security and integrity of U.S. critical infrastructure by establishing an interagency task force and requiring a comprehensive report on the targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure by People’s Republic of China state-sponsored cyber actors, and for other purposes.
The interagency task force is expected to be led by the…
