Rand Paul's last-minute demands push key cybersecurity law to the brink

"most members of Congress, industry leaders, the privacy community, and state and federal government partners,"

"We dispute the characterization that we have not been open to changes, and any assertion otherwise is false."

The Senate Homeland Security Committee canceled a planned markup on a bill that would change the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015. The law currently provides liability protections for companies that share threat intelligence with the U.S. government, even when the information indicates their own security gaps. The draft bill would remove those protections if security incidents violated company user agreements or privacy policies. Industry sources say the late changes could undermine the decade-old program. Senate aides say the rest of the committee only learned of the changes two weeks ago and expect no reschedule before the September 30 deadline.

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