http://fcw.com/articles/2010/03/03/cybersecurity-policy.aspx By William Jackson FCW.com March 03, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO -- The lack of trust between the public and private sectors continues to inhibit the sharing of information needed for the nation to effectively defend against rapidly evolving cyberthreats, a panel of industry experts and former government officials said Tuesday. "We need to have more transparency in the public-private partnership," said Melissa Hathaway, former White House advisor who conducted last year's comprehensive review of government cybersecurity. "The trust does not exist between the two parties." Hathaway, who now runs her own cybersecurity consulting firm, said during a panel discussion at the RSA Security Conference that a .safe space. overseen by a trusted third party is needed to facilitate sharing. William Crowell, former National Security Agency deputy director, said that it should be possible to share information without identifying the source, to make the parties feel more secure about providing it. "We need to be able to abstract the information we are are going to share," he said. "That's our best approach in the long run." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Wed Mar 03 2010 - 22:18:52 PST
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