After years of failure to find a consensus on cybersecurity, the Senate is expected to vote early next week on a bill that would enable the government and the private sector to share information about malicious threats and respond to them more quickly.
The legislation is not going to completely end the tidal wave of cyberattacks against the government and corporations, but passing it is better than doing nothing – and that is where Congress has left the matter in recent years.
The legislation, approved by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on a bipartisan 14-to-1 vote in March, is intended to iron out legal and procedural hurdles to sharing information on cyberthreats between companies and the government.
Private-sector networks have been extremely vulnerable, while the government possesses sophisticated tools that might be valuable in defending those networks. If threats are shared in real time, they could be blunted. The legislation is not a magic wand. Hackers innovate destructive and intrusive attacks even faster than they can be detected.
The information sharing would be voluntary. But the bill is at least a first step for Congress after several years of inconclusive debate over how to respond to attacks that have infiltrated networks ranging from those of Home Depot to the Joint Chiefs of Staff For the full article click here
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