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DHS Issues Final Information Sharing Guidelines

The Department of Homeland Security has issued final guidance on the implementation of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015. The final guidance documents include: Guidance to Assist Non-Federal Entities to Share Cyber Threat Indicators and Defensive Measures with Federal Entities under the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, Privacy and Civil Liberties Final...

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Approves Protecting Cyber Networks Act

On Thursday, March 26, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee unanimously approved the text of the Protecting Cyber Networks Act (H.R. 1560), two days after it had been introduced. The bill is similar, but not identical, to the Senate’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA”), which was passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 18. It is...

Senate Holds Cybersecurity Information Sharing Hearing

On January 28, 2015, cybersecurity information sharing was the focus of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ first hearing in the 114th Congress. In the wake of high-profile cyber attacks on Sony, Target, and JPMorgan, the testifying industry executives and security experts urged Congress to pass an information sharing bill that will better detect and...