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CISA likely coming back to Senate, amid doubts about effectiveness

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In an age of personalized attacks, the benefit of sharing may be limited, a security expert says

Supporters of a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill will push for the U.S. Senate to pass it this fall, even as some security experts question whether it would be effective.

Backers of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) will resume efforts to get the bill passed when Congress returns from a month-long recess next week, although Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has not yet put CISA on the Senate floor schedule, a spokesman said.

Even after a long debate on the Senate floor this summer, there are still “significant problems” with CISA, said Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a digital rights group.

“In our view, information is power,” he said. “If the entity receiving the information is a military/intelligence agency, especially the NSA, that puts the NSA in the driver’s seat of what should be a civilian cybersecurity program.”

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