DHS seeks input on insurers' proposal for cyber incident data repository

The Department of Homeland Security is planning a public workshop in April to build momentum for developing a cyber-incident data repository proposed by the insurance industry.

The department’s Cyber Incident Data and Analysis Working Group has already published three white papers on the data-repository proposal, which is intended to improve risk mitigation, aid cybersecurity research and help expand the cyber insurance market by addressing a lack of actuarial data.

The panel wrote late last year that its next paper would...