With a backdrop of high-profile breaches and October’s designation as “Cyber-Security Awareness Month,” Rep. Tom Graves (R-Georgia) and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have announced the formal introduction of the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (H.R. 4036). The bipartisan bill makes” targeted changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to allow use of limited defensive measures that exceed the boundaries of one’s network in order to monitor, identify and stop attackers.”
