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House Passes Bill To Improve Cyber Security Cooperation With Ukraine

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, February 9th, 2018

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The House passed a bill late Feb. 7 to improve cyber security cooperation with Ukraine, after the bill’s sponsor urged the White House to consider the international partnership as a critical step for assessing future election and infrastructure cyber threats.Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the bipartisan Ukraine Cybersecurity Cooperation Act, which calls on the State Department to increase cyber support for Ukraine while leveraging new information sharing opportunities regarding previous cyber attacks perpetrated by Russia.The bill, H.R.1997, was sponsored by Reps, Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.)…

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