Legislative - Federal - Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, Issue 2

President Obama Approves Senate Bill on Contractor Security Mandates

On July 7, President Obama signed the Senate version of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014. The bill requires intelligence community contractors with access to classified information to increase protections against unauthorized disclosure of such information, rapidly report data breaches to the government, and perform ongoing background checks of employees and officers.

Senator Releases Draft of Cybersecurity Data Sharing Act

On June 17, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D–CA) introduced a discussion draft version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014. Senator Feinstein collaborated with Senator Saxby Chambliss (R–GA) on the bill. The Act would incentivize the sharing of cyber threat information between the private sector and government entities, provide liability protection for certain data sharing, and offer protections to avoid unnecessary privacy intrusions.