To improve the definitions of cybersecurity threat and cyber threat indicator.
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Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Amendment SA 2612 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 35 - 60. Record Vote Number: 288.
October 27, 2015
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Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Amendment SA 2612 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 35 - 60. Record Vote Number: 288.
October 27, 2015
Senate amendment not agreed to: Amendment SA 2612 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 35 - 60. Record Vote Number: 288.
October 27, 2015
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S7498, S7509-7510)
October 27, 2015
Amendment SA 2612 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 35 - 60. Record Vote Number: 288.
October 27, 2015
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S7430)
October 22, 2015
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S7374, S7381; text as further modified: CR S7381)
October 21, 2015
Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 2612 proposed by Senator Feinstein for Senator Franken to Amendment SA 2716.(consideration: CR S7334-7335; text as modified: CR S7334-7335)
October 20, 2015
Amendment SA 2612 proposed by Senator Feinstein for Senator Franken to Amendment SA 2716. (consideration: CR S7334-7335; text as modified: CR S7334-7335) To improve the definitions of cybersecurity threat and cyber threat indicator.
October 20, 2015
Senate amendment submitted
August 4, 2015
Senate amendment submitted
August 4, 2015
Votes
1 roll call on this amendment
Text
Submitted
SA 2612. Mr. FRANKEN (for himself, Mr. Leahy, and Mr. Wyden) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 754, to improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 3, strike line 21 and all that follows through page 5, line 8, and insert the following: system that is reasonably likely to result in an unauthorized effort to adversely impact the security, availability, confidentiality, or integrity of an information system or information that is stored on, processed by, or transiting an information system. (B) Exclusion.--The term ``cybersecurity threat'' does not include any action that solely involves a violation of a consumer term of service or a consumer licensing agreement. (6) Cyber threat indicator.--The term ``cyber threat indicator'' means information that is necessary to describe or identify-- (A) malicious reconnaissance, including anomalous patterns of communications that appear to be transmitted for the purpose of gathering technical information related to a cybersecurity threat or security vulnerability; (B) a method of defeating a security control or exploitation of a security vulnerability; (C) a security vulnerability, including anomalous activity that appears to indicate the existence of a security vulnerability; (D) a method of causing a user with legitimate access to an information system or information that is stored on, processed by, or transiting an information system to unwittingly enable the defeat of a security control or exploitation of a security vulnerability; (E) malicious cyber command and control; (F) the harm caused by an incident, including a description of the information exfiltrated as a result of a particular cybersecurity threat; (G) any other attribute of a cybersecurity threat, if disclosure of such information is not otherwise prohibited by law; or ______