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DHS Wants Private Sector To Share More Information About Cyber Threats

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

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DHS Wants Private Sector To Share More Information About Cyber Threats

The Department of Homeland Security continues to share unique cyber threat indicators with the private sector and is working to improve the quality of that information but industry’s level of sharing cyber security threat signatures with the government continues to lag, a department official said on Thursday.“What we’re not seeing and what we’d like to see more of is the private sector sharing back into the Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) system so that we can then again, push those indicators…

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