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Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) Pending Legislation

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Washington, D.C. Update – December 2015

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2015 Year-End Appropriations and Tax Measures - On Friday, December 18, the House and Senate completed work on the omnibus appropriations legislation funding the federal government for the 2016 fiscal year and a series...more

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Alert: Passage of Landmark Cyber Legislation Likely

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The Omnibus appropriations bill entitled the Fiscal Year 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act released late Tuesday, includes language from separate cybersecurity bills that had previously passed in both the House of...more

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Senate Passes Cybersecurity Information Sharing Bill Long Sought by Industry

On Tuesday, October 27, the U.S. Senate approved legislation, strongly supported by business groups, that would facilitate information sharing between government and industry and provide liability protection to companies that...more

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Senate Passes Legislation To Ease Sharing Of Cybersecurity Threat Information

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On October 27, 2015, the Senate passed S. 754, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA”), which addresses how companies can share cyber threat information with the federal government. The legislation aims to...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Truth or Consequences: Does the Senate’s Information Sharing Bill Really Help Business?

Reacting to the influx of recent, high-profile data breaches and cybersecurity attacks in the government and the private sector, the U.S. Senate earlier this week passed the controversial Cybersecurity Information Security...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Senate passes Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act

After a long delay, with a vote of 74 to 21, the United States Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on October 27, 2015. The bill has been touted as being controversial and is opposed by...more

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Blog: Implications of the Cybersecurity Bill for the Health Care Industry

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On Tuesday the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). The House had passed a similar bill, the Protecting Cyber Networks Act, in April of this year. The Act comes in the wake of many large scale data...more

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Controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act Passes in Senate

This week, the Senate passed a cybersecurity bill, called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (the “CISA”), by a vote of 74 to 21. With the Senate’s vote, the bill is one step closer to becoming law....more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act Passes Senate, Would Encourage Business to Share...

Sharing information about cyber threats and analysis is a cybersecurity best practice but can often come into conflict with a company’s protection of its own data and that of its customers. On October 27, 2015, the U.S....more

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SIFMA Urges Senate to Pass Cyber Sharing Bill

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It seems as if every day there is a new report of a data breach or cyber attack. For the same reason that Willie Sutton robbed banks — “because that’s where the money is” — cyber criminals have been incessant in their...more

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Senate Passes Burr-Feinstein Cybersecurity Bill

The Senate has passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (S.754, CISA), sponsored by Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the chair and vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, by a margin of...more

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Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act Clears Senate Hurdle; House Action Unclear

The Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act (S.754), or CISA, cleared an important hurdle on October 22, 2015 when the Senate voted 83-14 to end debate on several amendments to the bill. CISA creates a cyberthreat...more

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Mintz TechConnect - October 2015

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Letter from the Editors - We are thrilled to provide you with the first issue of Mintz Levin’s TechConnect, a bi-monthly newsletter on “all things technology” in the legal and business world, from our perspective, of...more

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Senate Could Take Up Cybersecurity Bill Before August Recess

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While the U.S. House of Representatives has already adjourned for the month-long August recess, the U.S. Senate remains in session and could take up a measure to address cybersecurity information-sharing as one of its last...more

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Senate Intelligence Committee Approves Cybersecurity Bill

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The Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8th voted 12-3 to approve a cybersecurity bill authored by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-GA). S. 2588, the...more

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