President Barack Obama on Tuesday issued his long-awaited Executive Order on cyber security, directing the federal government to share classified and unclassified threat information with critical infrastructure organizations while also calling on the government and industry to work together to develop security standards and best practices that could be voluntarily adopted by the private sector. The directive expands an information-sharing program originally developed by the Pentagon to share cyber threat data with companies in the defense industrial base to include…
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