After years of deliberation and debate, the Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) this week. The bill aims to reduce cyber attacks by allowing companies to share cybersecurity threat data with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies. If, as expected, the bill passed in the House and becomes law, CISA would facilitate the sharing of cyber threat indicators — the latest forms of malware, spear phishing campaigns, and known malicious domains — between the private and public sectors.
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