Draft Order on WEA and EAS Cybersecurity Circulated to 10th Floor
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel circulated a draft order that would require emergency alert system and wireless emergency alert participants to create and implement cybersecurity plans and broadcasters and cable companies to notify the FCC of EAS equipment defects within 24…
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hours of discovery. The draft rules would also require that EAS participants have contingency plans for delivering alerts. The order stems from an October 2022 NPRM on cybersecurity proposals for WEA and EAS, which drew industry criticisms that new cybersecurity rules would be overly burdensome and duplicative (see 2310300057). The draft order is “informed by stakeholder input” and “would reduce risks to communications networks, in keeping with a whole-of-government effort to establish cybersecurity requirements to support national security and public safety,” a release said. The item follows a recent trend at the agency of circulating controversial items without attaching them to open meeting agendas, thus keeping the draft version from being publicly released (see 2404010062).