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Private Sector Begins Connecting With DHS Automated Cyber Threat Sharing System

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

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Private Sector Begins Connecting With DHS Automated Cyber Threat Sharing System

Private sector entities have begun connecting with a new automated cyber threat sharing system the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stood up in March and the sharing of threat indicators is underway, a department official told a House panel on Wednesday.“We will grow this system incrementally,” Andy Ozment, assistant secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications at DHS, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology. “We are not going to reach all of the American economy in just…

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