Why is it so hard to sign up for the feds’ cyberthreat information sharing program?
A little more than a year since the Department of Homeland Security launched the Automated Indicator Sharing program, private sector adoption of the cyberthreat information service has been sluggish. Critics have said the data has problems with quality and timeliness. But some experts say there’s another — and perhaps more important — issue: For most companies, it’s just too darn hard to sign up. One private sector executive who spoke to CyberScoop but asked for anonymity to preserve relationships at DHS, said company leaders “reared back hard” when they discovered what was involved in getting onboarded to AIS, which shares cyberthreat indicators gleaned from U.S. intelligence with the private sector. “You have to negotiate a special deal, which means lawyers’ time. You have to buy and install special equipment … You need people working on it … When you add it all up, it was a six-figure proposition with no [return on investment] you can […]
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