Cybersecurity Policy Report, Cyber Threat Info-Sharing Law Extension Needed for AI Security, USTelecom Says, (Sep 28, 2026)
Organizations Mentioned:USTelecom
The advent of AI (artificial intelligence) models capable of identifying and exploiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities adds urgency to the need for Congress to enact a long-term extension of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA 2015), according to Robert Mayer, USTelecom’s senior vice president–cybersecurity and innovation, and Brandon Heiner the organization’s SVP–government affairs.
“CISA 2015 is not an abstract piece of legislation. It provides the legal scaffolding that gives companies and the federal government confidence to share cyber threat indicators and defensive measures lawfully, responsibly, and at the speed today’s threats require, without fear of antitrust exposure, regulatory second-guessing, or unwarranted liability,” Messrs. Mayer and Heiner said Friday in a blog post.
They noted that the provisions of CISA 2015 were extended through Dec. 11 by a recently enacted stopgap spending bill (CPR, Sept. 1).
“That action provides valuable continuity and reflects the broad recognition on both sides of the aisle that real-time cyber threat sharing is essential to confronting fast-moving threats, including those increasingly enabled by AI. Now Congress has an opportunity to build on that common-sense momentum and provide the long-term certainty this successful framework needs,” they said.
“The threat landscape has only accelerated. Nation-state actors, ransomware syndicates, and increasingly sophisticated AI-enabled attacks are probing critical infrastructure, including the communications networks that everything else depends on, on a near-constant basis,” they said.
“The recent bipartisan extension was an important step,” they added. “Now lawmakers have an opportunity to build on that progress and provide the durable, long-term framework government and industry need to continue sharing cyber threat information with the confidence, speed, and responsibility today’s threat environment demands.”
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