Efforts To Team Up And Fight Off Hackers Intensify

  • 6 March 2015
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By: Kelly Jackson Higgins
 
New intelligence-sharing groups/ISACs emerge, software tools arrive and the White House adds a coordinating agency -- but not all of the necessary intel-sharing 'plumbing' is in place just yet.
 First in a series on ISACs and threat intelligence-sharing.
Call it safety in numbers. Over the past year, major industries in the hacker's bullseye -- retail and oil & gas -- have formed official cyberattack intelligence-sharing mechanisms, while the automobile industry and legal sector are currently mulling a similar road to defending themselves against attackers.
The White House, meanwhile, is creating a central coordinating agency to analyze and share information generated from the government and various information-sharing and analysis centers (ISACs) and intelligence-sharing organizations cropping up across various industries. Overall, there are some 18 ISACs under the National Council of ISACs umbrella, including the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) ISAC and the financial services (FS) ISAC, both considered the gold standards for industry intel-sharing groups.
 
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