DOD Expanding Contractor Cybersecurity Program

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/231500149

By Elizabeth Montalbano
InformationWeek
August 17, 2011

A Department of Defense (DOD) program that shares cyber-threat 
information with defense contractors and their network providers has 
already stopped "hundreds of intrusions" in its 90-day pilot phase, the 
deputy secretary of defense said this week.

The DOD soon plans to expand its Defense Industrial Base (DIB) 
experimental program--which currently has 20 participants--to the 
remainder of the industry base, as well as "key areas of critical 
infrastructure," deputy secretary of defense William J. Lynn told 
attendees Tuesday at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) 
Customer and Industry Forum in Baltimore.

A transcript of his talk is available online.

The DOD launched the program, in which the agencies also work with 
defense contractors to use the threat information in a practical way to 
stabilize their networks, in June.

"By furnishing this threat intelligence, we are able to help strengthen 
these companies' existing cyber defenses," Lynn said Tuesday, adding 
that the pilot "also appears to be cost effective."

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