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DoD Cyber Info Sharing Raises Privacy, Liability, Fairness Questions

Gally Articola

Wednesday, November 13th, 2013

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The Department of Defense’s new voluntary program for sharing cybersecurity threat information between contractors and the department has raised concerns over liability protections and fairness, according to public comments and outside experts. The Defense Industrial Base Voluntary Cyber Security and Information Assurance (DIB CS/IA) program, codified as a Final Rule on Oct. 22, will ask contractors to share threat risks so that they can be distributed to the DoD and other contractors in the defense community. Similar to the Cybersecurity…

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