Yesterday, March 27, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022. It is important to note that these are draft rules and do not, on their own, require organizations to report any incidents until after a Final Rule is published. CISA expects to publish the Final Rule in late 2025 with an effective date at least 60 days after publication. This is likely to push the effective date into 2026.

The national impact of ransomware is expanding. Following a dip in the recorded number of ransomware attacks for 2022, there have been multiple nationwide events with devastating effect in 2023.  Given the damage across private and public enterprises, the federal government has sought to provide additional information and resources to assist those who are preparing to defend against an attack or for businesses who have already experienced a ransomware attack.