The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has decided to sever financial support to the Center for Internet Security's Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center as it refocuses its mission as the U.S.'s primary cyber defense agency, according to StateScoop.
The Federal Trade Commission would be required to work with other agencies, industry leaders, researchers, and consumer advocates to identify policy gaps and create a governance framework that would protect neural data from potential exploitation of data brokers and tech firms under new legislation introduced by Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Sen. Tom Cotton is advancing a proposal that would push the debate on Section 702 surveillance powers well into 2027, offering an 18-month clean extension to avoid a divisive reauthorization battle next spring, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Odds that the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act will be renewed by Congress before its expiration at the end of the month have become low despite an intense push by industry groups and the Trump administration, according to CyberScoop.
StateScoop reports that Congressional leaders have been urged by a coalition of groups, including the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, the National Governors Association, and the National League of Cities, to renew the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program following the House Homeland Security Committee's approval of a decade-long extension for the program.
