""Stakeholders from across industry sectors have endorsed this legislation because it preserves the essential privacy and liability protections in the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, clarifies the law's language to better address the evolving threat landscape, and ensures private-sector insight is properly captured," said representative Andrew Garbarino, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee."
""Failing to ensure the relevance and efficacy of one of the federal government's most foundational cyber security tools for the next decade would threaten not only our networks, but also the security of the homeland," he said. "Today's swift advancement of the Wimwig Act ... underscores the House Homeland Security Committee's bipartisan commitment to enhancing our nation's cyber security posture," added Garbarino. "Congress must get both bills to President Trump's desk without delay.""
"CISA 2015 is a Barack Obama-era law that enacted legal protections and safeguards for organisations to share threat intelligence and other critical cyber security data with one another, and with the government."
The Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government (Wimwig) Act is advancing through Congress as a replacement for the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015, which lapses at the end of September. The replacement seeks to preserve CISA's privacy and liability protections, clarify statutory language to address an evolving threat landscape, and ensure private-sector cyber insights are captured. Industry stakeholders have endorsed the proposal and the House Homeland Security Committee reported bipartisan support. Congressional leaders are urging rapid passage to maintain foundational cyber tools and reduce compliance gaps and risks to end-user organisations. CISA 2015 established legal protections enabling shared threat intelligence with government partners.
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