Professor of Law Emeritus William C. Banks recently spoke with Politico for an article on the pending renewal of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). Enacted in 2015, CISA incentivizes businesses to share threat intelligence data with the federal government or other companies. It is set to expire in September.
Banks said that he thinks the law should be reauthorized but expressed doubt that the Trump administration would prioritize renewing it.
“The Trump administration is mostly dismantling pieces of government, not creating them or reauthorizing them,” Banks said, adding that some conservative voices believe the law “messes with the private sector.”
Banks is the founding director of Syracuse University’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, now known as the Institute for Security Policy and Law.