Virginia aims to build value proposition for cyber info-sharing entity

Virginia officials will meet with businesses and higher-education institutions this summer to work on building a value proposition for the state's planned information sharing and analysis organization, according to Karen Jackson, Virginia's secretary of technology.

President Obama's cybersecurity information-sharing executive order, issued in February, urges the development of new ISAOs – and related standards – to broaden the sharing of cyber threat data beyond sector-based groups. Virginia recently announced that it would be the first state to stand up...