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Don't expect much action from Congress, it's an election year. While there may be a new encryption bill as an outgrowth of Apple's confrontation with the FBI, in talking to security industry pros and Washington insiders, the consensus is that when it comes to cybersecurity legislation, including pending national bills on digital privacy and breach notification, nothing will happen until after the election. "It's unlikely any bills will pass this year," says Ari Schwartz, now managing director for cybersecurity services at Venable, and up until last fall, the National Security Council's senior director for cybersecurity. On the plus side, late last year, President Obama signed into law the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which according to Schwartz, gives companies incentives to share information in the event of a security breach.