Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, recently unveiled legislation that would reauthorize a lapsed cybersecurity law aimed at encouraging private companies and public sector entities to share cybersecurity information. The 2015 law known as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which was enacted in an omnibus funding bill, created liability protections, including from antitrust law, for companies sharing indicators of a cyberthreat with the federal government or with each other. The law’s expiration at the end of September, along with reduced staffing levels at federal cybersecurity agencies as a result of the partial government shutdown, has left observers concerned about U.S. resilience against a possible cyberattac

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