Overcoming Distrust in Information Sharing: What More is There to Do?


As cyber threats increase in frequency and intensity worldwide, it has never been more crucial for governments and private organizations to work together to identify, analyze and combat attacks.


Yet while the federal government has strongly supported this model of private-public information sharing, the reality is less than impressive. Many companies feel that intel sharing is too one-sided, as businesses share as much threat intel as governments want but receive very little in return.


The question is, have government entities like the FBI and CISA made significant changes to how they share intel with private organizations, or are we still facing the same frustrations and challenges as before?


Private-Public Intel Sharing — What Changed Since 2021?


The year 2022 has brought a raft of new cyber threats, many of which relate to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Despite the rising number of threats, confidence in government cybersecurity cooperation has remained skeptical.


This article, published in 2021, questioned the government’s ability or willingness to answer several key security-related questions:


Where was the data found?
Who was the attacker?
How was the attack uncovered?
What defensive measures were in place at the time of the attack?
What details are shareable versus what could prompt a secondary attack?

Has the situation changed in 2022? Despite some promising signs, the outlook is not overly optimistic.


An oversight report released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General said that the government bodies still failed to provide adequate information and context surrounding the cyber threat data it shar ..

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