ISAO standards group discusses EU GDPR challenges, exemptions

The standards-writing group for information sharing and analysis organizations hosted a webinar on Wednesday to examine the impact of the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation, and heard about the challenges and law-enforcement exceptions related to sharing cyber-threat indicators.

Norma Krayem, senior policy advisor at law firm Holland & Knight, told participants that officials from the departments of Homeland Security and State are in talks with the EU about regulatory exceptions in the “public interest” for sharing threat indicators....