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Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA
An anonymous reader writes: The recent approval of CISA (the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act) by the US Congress and Senate is paving the way for broader security collaboration. If and when CISA is ratified into law, the chief obstacles to cybersecurity collaboration within the private sector will remain. CISA promotes sharing – but when dealing with cyber threat data companies are also concerned about other mandates which may govern the information being shared. These include anti-trust, privacy, sectorial directives and data protection regulations that affect many multi-national organizations.
The recent approval of CISA .. by the US Congress and Senate is paving the way for yet more surveillance of the civilian population under the pretext of national security.
CISA isn't about sharing, it's about spying on our communications.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Well, we have better technology than the Stasi.
Wanna cyber?
Show me everything baby, I wanna see it ALL. :D
Congress probably wants to get as much data about multi-national corporations so that they can leverage that data to tax more money out of them. Meanwhile, customers are watching to see if those corporations are giving their private data to government and what that will mean for them and their families. So it's a lose-lose for corporations. Then the NSA is paying security experts and mathematicians and stockpiling all of that information for itself, while other government agencies (which are huge stockpiles of individual information) remain open to the exact attacks it funds. Not a good environment for people or corporations.
The only tools the US government has for security are getting insurance companies to not cover companies which are lax in security, or getting companies to privately share breaches so more high quality people can work on dealing with an attacker, find their methods, and find a way to mitigate it.
Extraordinary Rendition works great as a mitigation strategy. So does "shot while resisting arrest".
That's why I'm urging my Congressman to vote for this, and for the Copyright Violation Persecution and Snuggling Act!
My opinion is that most everything I have read about CISA is "offering" already exist.
The sharing already exist, and to date does little to stop the rape of networks.
The main thing that caught my eye, and perhaps the entire reason for CISA, is too mitigate corporate liability in data sharing.
That's the only new thing under this toxic sun, immunity for corporations.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
The phrase "if *and* when" really grates my nerves. Especially when we've just had an article on Boolean logic come through recently. It's one or the other people. It cannot be both. One indicates a conditionality and the other indicates a certainty.
They are sitting there saying "told you so" and laughing while a single tear falls to remind them that their worst nightmares are actually real.