Government Regulations

FedScoop reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has opened its new draft federal health IT strategy for 2024 to 2030 to public comments.

New strategic guidance has been released by the U.S. Department of Defense to strengthen the defense industrial base amid increasing cybersecurity threats, reports DefenseScoop.

Growing artificial intelligence use has prompted the White House to unveil new safeguards for the technology for federal agencies that seek to bolster safety and security, privacy protections, and innovation, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Unless there are major policy and regulatory changes and the industry focuses more on threat sharing, nothing much will change in healthcare.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has unveiled a draft cyber incident disclosure rule created under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act that would mandate organizations part of the 16 designated critical infrastructure sectors to report ransomware incidents and payments within a 72-hour and 24-hour period, respectively, according to CyberScoop.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Idaho and Montana resident Scott Rhodes was fined $9.9 million for conducting thousands of "illegal and malicious" robocalls, or automated phone calls, with disturbing pre-recorded messages across the U.S., BleepingComputer reports.

Severely lacking military coordination and recruitment for U.S. cybersecurity efforts have prompted the Foundation for Defense of Democracies to urge Congress to immediately advance an independent Cyber Force that would ensure the country's cyber defense readiness, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.