The House Homeland Security Committee needs help drafting cyberse...
The House Homeland Security Committee needs help drafting cybersecurity bills for the North American electricity grid, said Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Cybersecurity Subcommittee Chairman William Langevin, D-R.I. In a letter to House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell, D-Mich.,…
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they cited a recent hearing at which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chief said the agency needs more legal authority to protect the bulk power system (BPS) against cyberattack (WID May 22 p2). Section 215 of the Federal Power Act suffices to protect the BPS from “reliability threats,” but cybersecurity involves national security considerations, perhaps demanding mandatory fast action under news blackout -- not available under that provision, Thompson and Langevin said. They urged revision of the law to give the FERC “emergency authority to order temporary interim cybersecurity or other emergency standards” to protect against national security threats to the BPS, they said. House Homeland Security needs Commerce help to write and pass legislation enabling the emergency authority once the threat is confirmed by a national security or intelligence agency, and that sets standards for when emergency orders can be kept confidential, they said.