http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2012/10/pentagon-cyber-threat-sharing-program-lost-participants/59028/ By Dawn Lim Nextgov October 25, 2012 A Pentagon effort designed to share information on computer threats with defense contractors has lost members, InsideDefense reports. Five of the initial 17 members have pulled out of the Defense Industrial Base Enhanced Cybersecurity Services group, a component of the department's cybersecurity information assurance program, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed to the publication. Under the initiative, the government fed threat signatures to Internet service providers that participating defense companies paid to scan their traffic and identify malware, Foreign Policy also reported. The program, aimed at offering participants additional security protection, ran in pilot mode for nearly two years. "At the end of the operational pilot, one of the commercial service providers withdrew. During the operational testing of the pilot, five of the 17 DIB companies chose to withdraw and reallocate their resources to other corporate priorities," the DOD spokesman told InsideDefense. [...] ______________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Mon Oct 29 2012 - 01:42:42 PDT
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