Schedule emerges for developing cybersecurity information-sharing standards

The private-sector team tapped by the Department of Homeland Security to spearhead the development of industry standards for sharing cyber threat data intends to hold the first in a series of public workshops this fall and to issue the initial standards in a few years, according to the team leader.

DHS last week selected a team led by the University of Texas at San Antonio to develop standards for the new information sharing and analysis organizations, or ISAOs, called for...