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Cybersecurity Bill Gets New Life in Senate

posted by LaminatorX on Friday December 05 2014, @11:57AM   
from the series-of-tubes dept.

Serp Kannella writes:

Hot on the heels of the latest Sony hack, the seemingly-dormant National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act passed by the House is expecting movement within the Senate.

If passed, the bill would allow private companies to share cybersecurity data with the Department of Homeland Security. The bill also outlines Homeland Security’s role in American cybersecurity and would reauthorize the department’s authorities.

The bill would also give legal protection to private companies that share information with the federal government. All government agencies would also be required to tell Homeland Security about any cyberattack.

What would constitute a "cyberattack" from a corporation's perspective? To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste."

• Legal Protection (Score: 5, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Friday December 05 2014, @03:53PM

  by Nerdfest (80) on Friday December 05 2014, @03:53PM (#122946)

  he bill would also give legal protection to private companies that share information with the federal government

  This is the part that would worry me. Companies should be forbidden by law from sharing customer information with the government without receiving a warrant.

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