DoD Hires IBM Exec To Boost Industry Cybersecurity Program

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http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/08/dod-hires-ibm-exec-boost-industry-cybersecurity-program/69146/

By Aliya Sternstein
Defense One
August 22, 2013

The U.S. military has tapped an IBM executive to encourage Pentagon 
contractors to come clean about network breaches that might compromise 
government data, Defense Department officials said.

Daniel Prieto III will serve as director of cybersecurity and technology 
for Defense chief information officer Teri Takai.

Prieto, previously a vice president for IBM's public sector global 
business services, was recruited to increase participation in an exchange 
of cyber incident reports among willing defense industrial base firms and 
the government, Pentagon officials said on Wednesday.

"Prieto will be charged with improving and growing the voluntary 
information sharing program between the government and the private sector 
DIB companies, which is designed to improve DIB network defenses and helps 
DIB companies and the government to reduce damage to critical programs 
when defense information is compromised," Defense spokesman Lt. Col. 
Damien Pickart said.

The two-pronged effort involves the dissemination of contractor breach 
reports -- stripped of identifying information -- among all participants, 
as well as a component that discloses highly-classified intelligence on 
malware discovered by the National Security Agency. The idea is that 
cleared contractors or their cleared Internet providers can feed the 
threat indicators into anti-virus programs to preempt attacks.

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