Pentagon cyber-threat sharing program lost participants

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2012/10/pentagon-cyber-threat-sharing-program-lost-participants/59028/

By Dawn Lim
Nextgov
October 25, 2012

A Pentagon effort designed to share information on computer threats with 
defense contractors has lost members, InsideDefense reports.

Five of the initial 17 members have pulled out of the Defense Industrial 
Base Enhanced Cybersecurity Services group, a component of the 
department's cybersecurity information assurance program, a Pentagon 
spokesman confirmed to the publication.

Under the initiative, the government fed threat signatures to Internet 
service providers that participating defense companies paid to scan 
their traffic and identify malware, Foreign Policy also reported. The 
program, aimed at offering participants additional security protection, 
ran in pilot mode for nearly two years.

"At the end of the operational pilot, one of the commercial service 
providers withdrew. During the operational testing of the pilot, five of 
the 17 DIB companies chose to withdraw and reallocate their resources to 
other corporate priorities," the DOD spokesman told InsideDefense.

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