Cybersecurity Bill Heads Back To Capitol Hill: 10 Things Solution Providers Should Know

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What Exactly Is The Bill?

At its most basic level, CISA is designed to promote information sharing between the public and private sectors. The bill would set up a system for sectors - headed up by the Director of National Intelligence - to share threat intelligence information. The bill would also provide immunity against privacy and antitrust laws that prevent such sharing, and, once the information is shared, would allow the government to use the data to prevent attacks of all sorts, including cyberthreats, terrorist-generated threats, and economic-based threats. Nonrelevant, personally identifiable information would theoretically be stripped from threat intelligence shared, but can be used if it's not removed.