US security leaders urged lawmakers to reauthorize two key cyber laws, including a statute that facilitates private–public threat-intel sharing, before they expire at month end. The House Homeland Security Committee advanced both bills during a markup but limited time remains to enact them. Senior cybersecurity figures, including retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, emphasized the need for close collaboration and information sharing to protect critical infrastructure from actors prepositioning destructive capabilities. The WIMWIG Act would extend the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 through 2035, reference AI, update statutory cross-references, and preserve the 16-sector list.
"The federal government needs to be able to collaborate closely and efficiently with the private sector to secure critical infrastructure against cyber actors attempting to preposition destructive capabilities in our systems," said retired US Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, who also serves as senior director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. "Core to collaboration is the ability to share information," he added.
Montgomery's statement endorsed the Widespread Information Management for the Welfare of Infrastructure and Government ( WIMWIG) Act, and he was among nearly 20 senior cybersecurity figures to endorse this proposal. WIMWIG would extend for 10 years the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015. This law, known as the "other CISA," is a voluntary, cyber-threat sharing program between the private sector and the federal government. It provides legal protections to private security firms to encourage researchers to share threat indicators they see with the feds.
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