Mason Clutter, partner in Frost Brown Todd’s Data, Digital Assets & Technology practice group, was quoted by The Wall Street Journal on the uncertain future of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (2015 CISA). As Congress faces a looming reauthorization deadline, the article explores growing concerns from cybersecurity authorities amid stalled House and Senate bills and broader funding challenges.
Clutter emphasizes the importance of meaningful debate on critical issues such as privacy, civil liberties, and industry trust prior to reauthorization. “This is the point of a law that sunsets,” she says, noting that voluntary threat-sharing programs depend on confidence in government accountability, transparency, and appropriate privacy and civil liberties safeguards. “For a voluntary program to work, industry must trust that its reputation will remain intact, and [that] the government will do what it says it will do.”