From: Council on Foreign Relations
by Adam Segal
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The cybersecurity information sharing proposal is interesting. According to the text the president has sent Congress, the legislation aims to facilitate information sharing by:
1. explicitly authorizing a private entity to share cyber threat indicators with the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Centre (NCCIC), any federal entity (including law enforcement), and private sector-led information sharing and analysis organizations (ISAO);
2. launching a process to determine the best practices for the creation and operation of ISAOs, organizations the White House hopes can act as a clearing houses to pass cyber threat information between private sector entities; and
3. allowing NCCIC to share cyber threat information it has received from private entities to other federal entities, such as the National Security Agency or the FBI.
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