Cyber Attack Data-Sharing Is Lacking, Congress Told

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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- From the "No Duh" Department.

Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

U.S. intelligence agencies are unable to share information about foreign
cyber attacks against companies for fear of jeopardizing
intelligence-gathering sources and methods, cyber security expert Paul B.
Kurtz told lawmakers yesterday.

Kurtz, who served on the National Security Council in the Clinton and Bush
administrations, spoke at the first open hearing on cyber security held by
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He and other experts
discussed President Bush's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative,
disclosed in January, which focuses on cyber espionage against government
systems and, they said, does not adequately address the private sector.

There is no coordinated strategy or mechanism for sharing intelligence
about intrusions with companies, nor is there a systematic way for
companies to share information with the government, said the panelists, who
are members of the Center for Strategic and International Studies
commission on cyber security, set up last year to advise the next
administration.

[snip]

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR200809180
3730.html

- - ferg

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