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Treasury Wants Better Information on Financial Entities’ Cybersecurity Practices

NextGov: Two documents published in the Federal Register within the last week highlight how the Treasury Department is embracing a more active role for itself in protecting critical infrastructure in the financial sector from cybersecurity attacks, including by promoting industry’s perspective.

Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection will take comments through March 23 on a proposal issued Wednesday toward identifying “cybersecurity and operational risks to and interdependencies within U.S. financial services sector critical infrastructure and to work collaboratively with industry and interagency partners to develop risk management and operational resilience initiatives.”

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