Senators expect 10-year extension of cyber data-sharing law in future budget package

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 got a temporary reprieve after the government reopened this month, but it risks lapsing again at the end of January.

A bill that would extend bedrock cybersecurity information-sharing authorities for another 10 years could see passage through one of the broader spending bills meant to fully fund the government, though the specific package it could be included in is unclear, senators said Tuesday.

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 lapsed when the government shut down in late September. Congress temporarily revived it in the short-term funding bill that reopened the government through Jan. 30, restoring the authority only for the length of that stopgap extension.

During the shutdown, Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., introduced a bill that would have kept the law active for another 10 years. 

The senators told an audience at the Aspen Cyber Summit in ...