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 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which provides legal protections for organizations to share cyber threat data with the federal government and each other.

A “clean authorization is just critical,” said Kate Kuehn, who represented the National Technology Security Coalition. “We can change what we need to change later.”

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