With time running short before expiration of a cyber information-sharing law highly valued by the private sector, Congress is taking a look at the possibility of a short-term extension. The 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which provided legal safeguards for companies to share threat data, is due to sunset at the end of September, and…
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Consensus forms on reauthorizing 2015 cyber info-sharing law now, upgrading it later
The message was consistent at a House cybersecurity hearing Thursday: pass legislation extending an expiring information-sharing law before it lapses in September, and worry about improving it later. Both lawmakers and witnesses at the hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection shared that view about the pending expiration of the 2015…