Talk:Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act

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General

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act, 6 U.S.C.A. §652, was enacted by the Trump administration on November 16, 2018. The Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tasked with fulfilling the provisions of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015[1], which mandated the DHS to release a comprehensive list of cyberthreat indicators to aid non-federal and federal entities.[2] Following the high profile security breaches known as SolarWinds[3] and Colonial Pipeline[4] that demonstrated how underprepared the US cyber infrastructure was in preventing these attacks, the Biden Administration was led to revise the statute in 2022 and address the shortcomings of the act.

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[1] 6 U.S.C. §6

[2] See id.

[3] See infra notes 12-15 and accompanying text

[4]  See infra notes JohnWyciskala (talk) 16:32, 20 February 2023 (UTC)