A cybersecurity bill only a politician could love

As Congress moves to reconcile each chamber’s version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), civil liberties organizations and technology companies alike continue to pan the bill for threatening consumer privacy and covertly expanding government surveillance programs. Critics argue that strong cybersecurity should not come at the expense of diminished privacy — but this is a false dichotomy. CISA is unlikely to meaningfully improve cybersecurity because the bill addresses the wrong issues.

CISA is built on the premise that cyberthreat information is insufficiently shared among public and private entities. If organizations can quickly report new malware or intrusion techniques to other groups, the thinking goes, then those groups can proactively defend themselves against such threats and limit the overall risk of attack . For the full article click here 

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