Emergency Alert System (EAS) Cybersecurity Modernization

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-10-29 — To direct the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations establishing metrics, goals, and minimum requirements with respect to the delivery of wireless emergency alerts, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with wireless-emergency-alerts: Parallel public-safety alerting reform efforts — WEA delivery metrics on the wireless side and EAS cybersecurity modernization on the broadcast side. (novelty: 2)
2026-07-31 — Wireless Emergency Alerts; The Emergency Alert System; Modernization of the Nation’s Alerting Systems: FCC Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ‘Modernization of the Nation’s Alerting Systems’ seeks comment on proposals to make EAS more resilient, flexible, and useful, extending the modernization proceeding beyond the accompanying cybersecurity Report and Order. (novelty: 3)
2026-07-31 — Modernization of the Nation’s Alerting Systems; Protecting the Nation’s Communications Systems From Cybersecurity Threats: FCC Report and Order ‘Modernization of the Nation’s Alerting Systems; Protecting the Nation’s Communications Systems From Cybersecurity Threats’ imposes targeted cybersecurity requirements on EAS participants to guard against hijacking by cybercriminals and nation-state adversaries. (novelty: 3)