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IT recommends amendments to cybersecurity reporting bill, warns of overly broad reporting and sharing authority
Summary
IT staff told commissioners H34055 has useful aims for coordinated cybersecurity information sharing but the draft’s subjective incident definitions and broad data-sharing authority to the state CSO risk diverting local response resources; the county recommended oppose-with-amendments and requested objective thresholds similar to HIPAA standards.
Zach, the county’s IT representative, briefed the board on H34055, a bill to coordinate cybersecurity incident reporting with the state. Zach said the county supports the bill’s goal of information sharing but 'opposes without amendments' because the draft lacks objective definitions of a cybersecurity incident and could require reporting live vulnerabilities and remediation plans within 48 hours, diverting limited staff resources during an active incident.
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