As the Department of Homeland Security prepares a new cybersecurity strategy, a report released Monday by Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., called on the department to improve its information-sharing program and warned of the threat posed by nation-state hacking tools to federal networks. Talk of making cyberthreat sharing real-time and robust has “gone on far too long,” and U.S. networks “can no longer rely solely on reactive, indicator-based sharing programs” to defend against hacking, stated the report to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. DHS has worked to quicken the pace at which it shares threat information with the private sector via the Automated Indicator Sharing program. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen last week touted the program in testimony to the House Homeland Security Committee. “We’re encouraging more and more companies and entities to [participate in the program] so, at machine speed, we can advise them of incoming threat vectors,” […]
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