Attorneys scramble to advise clients after lapse of key cyber info-sharing law

Legal professionals are working to help clients navigate the lapse of a longstanding cybersecurity information-sharing law that gave companies various forms of legal cover when they transmitted cyber threat data to the government.

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 lapsed when the government shut down. Federal funding for a state and local cybersecurity grant program also suffered at the time of the shutdown.

The 2015 law’s expiration now opens the door wider for adversaries, as it disincentivizes the exchange of information that can help stop hacking threats, experts say. Public and private sector entities would also have to rework their current approaches to keep data exchanges afloat.

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