Washington, June 25 -- Congressman James R. Walkinshaw issued the following press release:
Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), a Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02) today introduced the bipartisan Cybersecurity Logging Enforcement and Accountability Reporting (CLEAR) Act, legislation requiring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress on the gaps preventing the Department from fully meeting federal cybersecurity event logging requirements.
Event logging, which tracks activity across an agency's networks and systems, is a foundational cybersecurity tool. Without comprehensive event logging, agencies can miss intrusions, lose critical data needed to investigate cyb...