On April 13, the House Intelligence Committee recommended passing the Protecting Cyber Networks Act (H.R. 1560), a bill authorizing corporate cyber threat information-sharing. The Committee reported that the bill "enables private companies to monitor their networks and voluntarily share cyber threat indicators with one another and with the federal government, all while providing strong protections for privacy and civil liberties." On April 15, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued its report approving the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (S. 754). The Committee reported that the bill "provides positive legal authority" for private companies to monitor and defend their networks and customer-authorized networks for cybersecurity purposes, and to share information with other companies and the government. In addition, the bill "creates narrowly tailored liability protection to incentivize companies' efforts to identify cybersecurity threats and share information about them." On April 17, the House Homeland Security Committee recommended adopting the National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015 (H.R. 1731), which authorizes and "provides liability protections for private entities that conduct network awareness or voluntar[ily] sha[r]e cyber threat information with [] another private entity or the [National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center]."
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