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Senate Fails To Bring Amendment With Cyber Legislation To Debate

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

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Senate Fails To Bring Amendment With Cyber Legislation To Debate

Army Cyber Mission Image: U.S. Army Cyber Command

The Senate on Thursday failed to bring to a vote an amendment to the defense authorization bill that aimed at expanding the sharing of cyber threat indicators between the public and private sectors, leaving uncertain for now the future of cyber security information sharing legislation in the Senate this year.The amendment included a previously-approved bill out of the House Intelligence Committee that has bipartisan support, but Democrats oppose channeling the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 as part of…

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