{"id":32757,"date":"2021-03-11T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32757"},"modified":"2021-03-11T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T02:09:09","slug":"lawmakers-roll-out-bill-to-protect-critical-infrastructure-after-florida-water-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32757","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers roll out bill to protect critical infrastructure after Florida water hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of bipartisan House lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation intended to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks in the wake of an unsuccessful hack of a Florida water treatment facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Industrial Control Systems Enhancement Act, spearheaded by House Homeland Security Committee ranking member John Katko (R-N.Y.), would give more authority to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to protect critical systems against attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers rolled the bill out a month after officials in Oldsmar, Fla., announced that a hacker has unsuccessfully attempted to tamper with systems at the town\u2019s water treatment facility to poison the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of bipartisan House lawmakers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32758,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32757\/revisions\/32758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}