Controversial CISPA Cyber-Security Bill Returns

Cybersecurity bill CISPA is heading back to the House on Wednesday, when Reps. Mike Rogers and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger will reintroduce the measure. The bill is aimed at improving information-sharing about cyber threats between government and industry so cyberattacks can be thwarted in real time. The bill that will be introduced this week will be identical to the version of CISPA that passed the House last spring.

The White House issued a veto threat against CISPA before it was taken up on the House floor last year, saying the president's top advisers would recommend that he veto the bill if it came to his desk. It's unclear whether the White House would issue a similar threat this time around due to its concern over a lack of privacy protections in the bill.

Referring to his bill, Rogers said lawmakers ought to "go for what we can pass in a bipartisan way," even as the White House prepares an executive order that would go a step further and try to develop new security standards for the nation's most critical infrastructure.

"This is clearly not a theoretical threat - the recent spike in advanced cyber attacks against the banks and newspapers makes that crystal clear," Rep. Rogers said in a statement. "American businesses are under siege. We need to provide American companies the information they need to better protect their networks from these dangerous cyber threats. It is time to stop admiring this problem and deal with it immediately. Congress urgently needs to pass our cyber threat information sharing bill to protect our national security, our economy, and U.S. jobs."

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