Industry cyber info-sharing body to launch new 'ISAO' for insurers

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Inside Cybersecurity
May 13, 2015

The information-sharing entity for industrial control system operators is 
being folded into Webster University's "Cyberspace Research Institute" and 
will announce next week that it is launching a new information sharing and 
analysis organization, or ISAO, for the insurance sector.

Webster's Cyberspace Research Institute, known as the CRI, will also bid 
to be selected by the Department of Homeland Security as the 
private-sector standards-setting body for ISAOs, according to Chris Blask, 
the ICS-ISAC executive director. DHS is expected to release a "grant 
opportunity notice" in the near term.

Blask will continue to lead the ICS-ISAC within the Webster cyber 
institute, and the existing info-sharing body will keep its name. Blask 
has been an active promoter of info-sharing initiatives and the framework 
of cybersecurity standards developed by the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology.

Webster's cybersecurity program was launched in 2014 and is the brainchild 
of Tom Johnson, chief of strategic initiatives at the school and a pioneer 
in cybersecurity education.

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