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Senate Bill Would Boost Cyber Threat Information Sharing By Defense Industry

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, June 11th, 2020

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Senate Bill Would Boost Cyber Threat Information Sharing By Defense Industry

Taking up some of the recommendations of a recent major bipartisan cyber security commission, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Wednesday called for the Defense Department to review how it can get the nation’s defense industrial base to expand its sharing of information on the cyber threats it encounters. The cyber provision, one of 11 recommendations the committee addresses from the March report by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, is aimed at improving “existing threat sharing programs” for defense industrial…

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