Consider the irony of withholding threat and vulnerability information in the name of national security that, if properly disseminated, would do more to help our national security.
This system’s workflow automation and tracking features enable adaptive response, while including all stakeholders and facilitating information-sharing with other organizations through participating with Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs).
Amid calls for stronger cyber security laws, the Department of Homeland Security is working on getting its threat-tracking system to work across its own operations and the Department of Defense. An October 24 memo from the Office of the Inspector General found that although the DHS can keep track of threats and provide updates on ongoing issues, “federal cyber operations center do not have a common incident management system tool that tracks, updates, shares, and coordinates cyber information with each other.”
The pact would promote information-sharing, and it would set up a cyber hotline and working group between the two countries to foster cyber security cooperation.
The two associations' MOU would promote information-sharing and collaboration and to foster growth of the security industry, promote public safety and protect critical infrastructure globally.
In 2004, the United State’s Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration established the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) to, as quickly as possible, identify, secure, remove and/or facilitate the disposition of high-risk vulnerable nuclear and radiological materials around the world that pose a threat to the United States and the international community.
Facing increasing concerns of cyber attacks stealing intellectual property, the White House has released a new strategy for safeguarding trade secrets.
