"The US Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 has expired with no replacement or extension in place amid a chaotic shutdown of the federal government, leaving cyber pros in legal limbo and putting global collaboration on threat intelligence at risk of stalling. The shutdown took effect at the stroke of midnight on 1 October after late-night attempts to get a Continuing Resolution - which would have funded the US government for a few more weeks - failed to get through a deeply-divided Congress."
""You can tell how important an issue is by its lateral movement across legislative actions," he said. "What impressed me about the urgency was that they did include the provision to extend CISA 2015 in the Continuing Resolution options. "That conveys an acceptance across the political landscape that this is important, even though there may be disagreement.... If it wasn't important they would just let it lapse. To me it does indicate the significanc"
The US Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 expired with no replacement or extension amid a federal government shutdown. The shutdown began at midnight on 1 October after a Continuing Resolution failed in Congress. The Continuing Resolution would have extended CISA 2015 to allow time to finalise the proposed Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government (Wimwig) Act. Wimwig was designed to replace CISA 2015 and had advanced through the House Homeland Security Committee, but unresolved political differences prevented timely passage. The lapse creates legal uncertainty for cybersecurity professionals and threatens to stall threat-intelligence collaboration.
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