Chair of Senate Intelligence Committee says CISPA sister bill in the works

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, could soon appear again on Capitol Hill. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) says she’s prepared a draft bill that will complement the House-penned CISPA that was approved earlier this year. Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters at The Hill on Tuesday that she intends on moving forward with a draft bill she helped created to serve as a counterpart to the cybersecurity act approved in the House of Representatives in April by a vote of 288-to-127. Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and Dutch Ruppersberger originally introduced CISPA in late 2011 and touted it as a necessary implement to counter cyberattacks waged at the computer systems of businesses based in the United States. It was passed by the House in mid-2012 but failed to make its way to the Senate, prompting Rogers and Ruppersberger to reintroduce CISPA this past February. “It is time to stop admiring this problem and deal with it immediately,”Rogers said then.“Congress urgently needs to pass our cyber threat information sharing bill to protect our national security, our economy and US jobs.” Rogers and Ruppersberger described their bill as a means to “provide for the sharing of certain cyber threat intelligence and cyber threat information between the intelligence community and cybersecurity entities” by encouraging private companies such as Google, Facebook and others to hand over to the government any data that could be used to combat cyberattacks and attempted acts of online espionage.



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