SecurityWeek reported that the U.S. House of Representatives this week passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill whose goal is to improve the security of IoT devices.
First introduced in 2017 and reintroduced in 2019, the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act will now have to pass the Senate before it can be signed into law by the president.
The bipartisan legislation is backed by Reps. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), and Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo). There are also several major cybersecurity and tech companies that support the bill, including BSA, Mozilla, Rapid7, Cloudflare, CTIA and Tenable.