Cybersecurity calls for government-private sector infosharing, report says

June 02, 2013

Sharing of critical security information between the federal government and the private sector is an important part of protecting the nation's infrastructure and intellectual property from online attackers and thieves, but that knowledge flow isn't always smooth, NSS Labs says. "It has been 10 years since the first national consensus emerged in the United States that more needed to be done to protect the national computer and communications infrastructure," NSS noted in a report. "Yet," it continued, "we are still struggling to find and enable the right level of public/private cooperation and responsibility assignment to protect the nation's critical infrastructure, much of which is owned and operated by the private sector." While acknowledging progress on information sharing in the financial services and defense industries, the report said much still needs to be done to enable near real-time situational awareness across the nation's critical infrastructure and to fully leverage U.S. government cyber intelligence capabilities for better protection. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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