CISA cybersecurity bill passes US Senate Steelers Lounge

The bill’s co-sponsors, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), sent the same grave message hours earlier, in an attempt to build momentum to oppose Cotton’s efforts. “Our ability to defend our nation against cyber-attacks requires a comprehensive approach that involves not only the federal government, but also industry”. We can not sit idle while foreign agents and criminal gangs continue to steal Americans’ personal information as we saw in the Office of Personnel Management, Target, and Sony hacks. “From the beginning we committed to make this bill voluntary, meaning that any company in America, if they, their systems are breached, could choose voluntarily to create the partnership with the federal government”. The Senate’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is important to help detect and minimize cyber intrusions, according to the bill’s bipartisan backers. Critics have voiced strong concerns over the privacy issues contained within the bill and the vague wording that would give any government agency (including the CIA, FBI, and the NSA) access to a person’s online data. Steelers Lounge  For the full article click here 

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