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The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) establishes a federal framework for reporting significant cyber incidents and ransomware payments affecting critical infrastructure. The law assigns CISA a central role in collecting reports, improving national visibility into threats, and distributing relevant information to authorized government partners.
A proposed implementation approach calls for CISA to eliminate duplicative reporting through common data fields, definitions, reporting timelines, and secure routing systems while retaining protections attached to original submissions. It also urges criticality assessments based on systemic dependencies, market concentration, and the consequences of disruption—particularly for software, cloud, and managed-service providers—rather than an organization's size alone.
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Congress enacted the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA), establishing cyber-incident reporting requirements intended to improve federal visibility into significant incidents affecting critical infrastructure.
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CISA is expected to finalize its long-delayed **Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act** (`CIRCIA`) rule by September, establishing a mandatory federal reporting regime for critical infrastructure operators. Under the rule, covered entities would have to report substantial cyber incidents to CISA within **72 hours** and disclose **ransomware payments within 24 hours**, marking a major shift from the agency’s largely voluntary incident-sharing model. The reporting mandate was authorized in 2022 but missed its statutory October 2025 deadline amid rulemaking delays and Department of Homeland Security scheduling disruptions. CISA has continued procedural work and stakeholder outreach, including notices and town halls, as officials refine the final directive shaped by lessons from the **SolarWinds** compromise, the **Colonial Pipeline** attack, and broader concerns that geopolitical crises could trigger cyberattacks against U.S. infrastructure.
Jul 7, 2026
US cyber leadership signaled near-term movement on **national cybersecurity strategy** and **critical-infrastructure cyber regulation**, emphasizing closer industry-government coordination. National Cyber Director **Sean Cairncross** said the forthcoming national cyber strategy aims to streamline overlapping regulations away from checklist compliance, while strengthening information-sharing mechanisms, federal modernization, critical infrastructure protection, workforce development, emerging technologies, and deterrence of foreign cyberattacks; he also highlighted work on an **AI security framework** and urged support for reauthorizing the **2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act**. CISA indicated an update is imminent on implementing the **2022 Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA)** after delays and industry backlash to an earlier approach. CISA executive assistant director **Nick Andersen** said news is expected “in the next couple of weeks” on how the rulemaking will proceed; the final rule deadline has slipped to **May 2026**. CIRCIA would require critical infrastructure entities to report **major cyber incidents within 72 hours** and **ransomware payments within 24 hours** to CISA, reflecting federal efforts to standardize incident reporting and improve national visibility into significant attacks.
Jun 29, 2026
The **Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)** announced it will hold sector-by-sector virtual town halls to gather additional industry feedback on its long-delayed rulemaking under the **Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA)**. The proposed regulation would require covered critical infrastructure entities to report **significant cyber incidents within 72 hours** and **ransomware payments within 24 hours**, but key details—such as which entities are covered, how to treat small businesses, what incident examples trigger reporting, and how to avoid conflicts with existing regulatory regimes—remain contentious and are a focus of the sessions. Separately, CISA leadership briefed staff on an impending **Cybersecurity Division reorganization** driven by resource constraints, including plans to **deprioritize or shut down some programs** to concentrate on higher-profile goals such as **operational technology (OT) security** and core national cyber defense functions. The internal messaging emphasized doing more with fewer personnel following a period of layoffs, retirements, and other disruptions, while refocusing the division on delivering actionable cyber intelligence to partners and coordinating broader “national cybersecurity defense” planning and operations.
Jun 29, 2026