While the federal government has long been active in investigating and assessing the impact of cyber incidents, this new policy highlights a new sense of urgency
that the National Security Council has released a new policy requiring the FBI and other federal agencies to report to the White House, as quickly as within 24 hours, on cybersecurity incidents impacting certain critical infrastructures.
While the federal government has long been active in investigating and assessing the impact of cyber incidents impacting critical infrastructures, this new policy highlights a new sense of urgency to get the White House involved as early as possible.
Lacking any kind of consistent national cybersecurity incident reporting requirements, implementation of this policy will result in incredibly erratic and unreliable reporting between different sectors. Unfortunately, unless the disruption of a private company’s products or services gets media visibility due to a critical shortage or severe outage, it’s highly unlikely the federal government will even be aware of it within a reasonable time.
Another problem with such a short reporting timeline is that cybersecurity incidents almost always take several days to determine the extent of the damage and can take much longer to make an accurate attribution of the culprits. This reporting policy will create an incredible distraction for those CIOs and CISOs trying to mitigate and extinguish the flames of a cyber incident, by having to engage with the FBI and other agencies while their company is burning down.
Following quickly on the heels of President Biden’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Tuesday, there has been speculation that the new policy is a response to the apparent tolerance of sheltering cybercriminals operating within the borders of Russia.
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