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Washington Update – July 15, 2021

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Congress returned to Washington from its two-week July 4th recess this week – and issues important to ISCPO members have heated up along with the summer temperatures! House Spending Bills Address Critical Supply Chain Issues  The House Committee on Appropriations has recently acted on several annual spending bills, including measures on Homeland Security, Commerce-Justice-Science, Transportation and others.  All told, the Committee has now approved … Read more

Update from Washington — June 15, 2021

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Cyber-Security On the heels of two major private sector ransomware attacks, official Washington is looking to act.  Last month, a cyber-attack on Colonial Pipeline shut down major gasoline distribution in the eastern United States, causing major supply disruptions and gas shortages.  Reports are that Colonial paid $4.4 million in ransom to resolve the hack.  A … Read more

What We Urge You To Do To Protect Against The Threat of Ransomware – June 3, 2021

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Critical Infrastructure Colleagues and Partners, Please find attached and distribute to your members and partners a memo from Anne Neuberger, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, titled “What We Urge You To Do To Protect Against The Threat of Ransomware.” Partners can find more information on … Read more

CISA MS-ISAC Ransomware Guide –

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Food and Agriculture Sector Members, Given the events of the past weekend, the SCC and GCC leadership felt that it would be timely to resend this information out to our sector partners.  Over the next few days, we will continue to forward additional resources as they are available. On September 30, 2020, the Cybersecurity and … Read more