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Cyberthreat Data Sharing Legislation Advances

The House on April 22 passed legislation granting liability protections to U.S. companies that share cyberthreat information with each other and the federal government. The Protecting Cyber Networks Act (H.R. 1560) would allow companies to voluntarily share information on cyberthreat indicators and defensive measures while requiring them to remove any personal data before providing the...

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...