Obama to Encourage Information Sharing on Cybersecurity Threats
President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Friday
aimed at encouraging companies and organizations to share more
information about cybersecurity threats with the government and each
other.
Obama will sign the order at a White House conference on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University in California. He arrived in California Thursday.
The order will also direct the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to work on voluntary standards for the entities sharing the information.
The move follows high-profile hack attacks against Sony Pictures Entertainment, Anthem health insurance, Target, Home Depot, EBay and JPMorgan Chase. The U.S. government also has suffered cyberattacks, including the hacking of unclassified computers at the White House and State Department, and the hacking of the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the U.S. central military command.
Some of the attacks have been blamed on hackers in Russia, China and North Korea.
Earlier this week, the White House announced the creation of a new federal agency to analyze threats to the nation's cybersecurity and coordinate strategy to combat them.
The Obama administration is launching the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center as a central place to coordinate cyberthreat intelligence from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies. The center will operate under the guidance of the director of national intelligence.
Currently, no single government agency is responsible for coordinating cyberthreat assessments, sharing information rapidly among existing agencies, and providing timely intelligence to policymakers, said Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.
Obama will sign the order at a White House conference on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University in California. He arrived in California Thursday.
The order will also direct the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to work on voluntary standards for the entities sharing the information.
The move follows high-profile hack attacks against Sony Pictures Entertainment, Anthem health insurance, Target, Home Depot, EBay and JPMorgan Chase. The U.S. government also has suffered cyberattacks, including the hacking of unclassified computers at the White House and State Department, and the hacking of the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the U.S. central military command.
Some of the attacks have been blamed on hackers in Russia, China and North Korea.
Earlier this week, the White House announced the creation of a new federal agency to analyze threats to the nation's cybersecurity and coordinate strategy to combat them.
The Obama administration is launching the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center as a central place to coordinate cyberthreat intelligence from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies. The center will operate under the guidance of the director of national intelligence.
Currently, no single government agency is responsible for coordinating cyberthreat assessments, sharing information rapidly among existing agencies, and providing timely intelligence to policymakers, said Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.
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