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Senate Intel Panel Approves Cyber Information Sharing Bill

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

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The Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12 marked up the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, which is aimed at increasing the sharing of cyber threat data between the federal government and the private sector.The bill, which was approved 14-1 in the closed committee markup, wasn’t available at our press time March 12.Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the committee, announced the markup on the evening of March 11. Burr and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), vice chairman of the panel,…

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