March 9, 2026
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is postponing a series of town halls scheduled to begin March 9 to inform a rulemaking on establishing a mandatory cyber incident reporting regime, citing the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown.
The new national cyber strategy includes an “America first” ethos shared by many other initiatives under the Trump administration, with a focus on driving forward specific outcomes aimed to meet the needs of the federal government and industry stakeholders at a high level.
The Government Accountability Office is sharing details from a roundtable of critical infrastructure representatives who emphasized the compliance burden of meeting duplicative federal cybersecurity regulations, in the second installment of a series on federal harmonization efforts.
CISA Acting Director Nick Andersen and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross are among the lengthy list of speakers this week at Billington’s third annual summit focused on state and local governments, while the Senate Commerce Committee takes up the nomination of Arvind Raman to serve as the next NIST director.
Senate Commerce Committee members pressed Arvind Raman, President Trump’s pick to lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology, on his priorities for cybersecurity-related artificial intelligence standards-setting, during a March 5 confirmation hearing.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has unanimously advanced a series of industry-backed cybersecurity bills focused on strengthening information sharing and cybersecurity programs geared at the energy sector.
President Trump has fired embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and has selected Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), an Armed Services and Appropriations committee member, for a position with authority over the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and responsibility for the administration’s immigration agenda.