Potential frontrunner emerges for cyber info-sharing standards role

A team comprised of the Center for Internet Security, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center and SAE International appears to be the frontrunner in the competition to be the Obama administration’s designated non-governmental entity in charge of setting standards for sharing cyber threat data, according to industry sources.

The administration is poised to announce a single winner among several industry teams vying to spearhead the development of standards for the new information sharing and analysis organizations, or ISAOs,...