CISA’s massive rulemaking will create the first US cyber incident and ransomware payment reporting mechanism that promises to radically overhaul the workloads of most cybersecurity professionals.
In the wake of a string of high-profile cyber incidents, capped by a crippling ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, the US Congress passed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) to create a centralized federal government cyber incident reporting apparatus.
