This afternoon the House passed HR 3878, the Strengthening
Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Coordination in Our Ports Act of 2015.
There was only 17 minutes of debate under suspension of the rules and it was
passed by voice vote.
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post amendments were made
to this bill in Committee to make changes to 46 USC 70101 and 70103 to add ‘cybersecurity’
provisions to MTSA requirements for vulnerability assessments and security
plans for facilities and vessels. This will be the first official mention of
cybersecurity in the MTSA programs.
The bill is still missing any specific requirement for
covered facilities or vessels to report cybersecurity incidents to the Coast
Guard. There is very little chance that such reporting requirements will be
made in the Senate since this bill will probably move directly to the Senate
floor under the unanimous consent process.
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