
The Department of Homeland Security has made progress in its cyber threat information sharing requirements set forth by law but it needs to improve the quality of the information it shares through an automated portal for it to be more effective in reducing security risks, the department’s watchdog agency says in a new report. The information sharing portal, authorized as part of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, is the Automated Information Sharing (AIS) program, and it allows federal, state and…