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Senate Intel Panel Approves Cyber Information Sharing Bill

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, March 12th, 2015

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The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday marked up the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, which is aimed at increasing the sharing of cyber threat data between the federal government and the private sector.The bill, which was approved 14-1 in the closed committee markup, wasn’t available at our press time Thursday.Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the committee, announced the markup on Wednesday evening. Burr and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), vice chairman of the panel, co-sponsored the Cybersecurity Information Sharing…

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