Near-term challenges emerge for cyber info-sharing standards effort

The White House effort to spur the development of voluntary industry standards and tools to help companies share more cyber threat data is facing delays, lagging momentum and mounting work as a key milestone nears next week.

The private-sector standards body helming the project – a team of the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Logistics Management Institute and the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center – won a DHS grant last year to help implement President Obama's February...