Friday, October 19, 2012

White House cybersecurity order will call for agencies to share threat intel with businesses

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Last month it was confirmed that the Obama White House was drafting an executive order for cybersecurity best practices, and now we're getting a sense of what that order will contain. The Associated Press has viewed a draft of the seven-page order, which would instruct the Department of Homeland Security to oversee a network that will provide companies that maintain important infrastructure services, such as electric grids and railroads, with advance warning when intelligence suggests said services have been targeted. The network would be a far-reaching effort, with sensitive information scrubbed from classified reports and the resulting "sanitized" versions quickly disseminated to the necessary parties.


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