Navigating Disharmony Among Cybersecurity Regulations

Over the past year, several significant cybersecurity statutory and regulatory requirements have been issued or proposed that will affect boards of directors. These include the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s pending mandatory reporting framework, the Transportation Security Administration’s regulatory measures for the transportation sector, the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s incident reporting and board governance proposal...

Brig. Gen. Marty Reynolds, US Air Force (Ret.) has more than 30 years of experience in cybersecurity and aviation. He is managing director, cybersecurity, with Airlines for America, and is a member of NACD, the National Hispanic Corporate Council, the Digital Directors Network, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In this article, he writes in his personal capacity, and the opinions expressed here are his own.