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Financial Sector Supports Obama’s Order Promoting Sharing Of Cyber Threat Data

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

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Financial Sector Supports Obama’s Order Promoting Sharing Of Cyber Threat Data

The financial services sector for years has been involved in sharing information about cyber threats with the federal government and among companies in the industry and it supports a new directive from the president aimed as improving this sharing, a representative from the financial sector said on Wednesday.“The administration’s executive action is a positive step toward increasing the volume and quality of actionable and timely cyber security information,” Greg Garcia, the executive director of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council,…

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