From the article: "More information sharing is needed between companies and government agencies
in order to help fend off attacks from hacktivists, criminals, and
nation-states that target computer networks in the United States, according to
the Cyber Security Task Force: Public-Private Information Sharing report
written by the Homeland Security Project
at the non-profit Bipartisan Policy Center. …"The resolution of numerous
legal impediments -- some real, some perceived -- is asserted by various
stakeholders as a predicate to more robust cyber threat information sharing
among private sector entities and between the private sector and the
government," the report says. "Perceptions of such impediments have
created a collective action problem in which companies hold threat and
vulnerability information close, rather than sharing it with each other or the
government. Information that should be shared includes, but is not limited to,
malware threat signatures, known malicious IP addresses, and immediate cyber
attack incident details."
To resolve this dilemma, the report proposes offering some safe harbors for
cyber security-related information sharing." Read more
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