Congress needs to reauthorize an expiring law that provides legal protections to companies for sharing cyber threat information with the federal government and each other, the staff director for Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said Wednesday. The 2015 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Act is due to lapse at the end…
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Sean Plankey picked by Trump to be CISA director
President Donald Trump nominated Sean Plankey to head the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Committee on Tuesday, the last major piece to fall into place for cybersecurity leadership in his administration. Plankey served in the first Trump administration, holding a few posts with cyber responsibilities. He was the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Energy Department’s…
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A major cybersecurity law is expiring soon — and advocates are prepping to push Congress for renewal
A push is gearing up to renew an expiring 10-year-old cybersecurity law that was viewed at its initial passage as the most significant cybersecurity legislation Congress had ever passed, and that advocates say now fosters several important threat-sharing initiatives. The 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act provides safeguards for companies that voluntarily share threat intelligence data…
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Noem: No anti-disinformation, misinformation action under her as DHS secretary
Department of Homeland Security secretary nominee Kristi Noem committed to senators Friday that if confirmed she would keep the department out of efforts to combat disinformation and misinformation, and pledged to make the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “smaller, more nimble.” The South Dakota governor’s remarks signal that the incoming Trump administration will act on…