A member of the House Ag Committee has introduced legislation that would direct the nation’s intelligence agencies to create a cyber response plan to defend the private sector like agriculture.
Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, tells Brownfield the government is unprepared to assist businesses when a cyberattack hits. “What we learned with JBS and with the pipeline hack is there was a lot of confusion on the government side,” Bacon says. “That’s unacceptable. We have to be better than that.”
The DHS Roles and Responsibilities In Cyber Space Act requires the U.S.