DHS insurance report could inform development of cyber info-sharing standards

A federal report that proposes hacked companies share specific kinds of cyber incident data in a private-sector repository to help expand the nascent insurance market is drawing early praise from industry stakeholders tracking the development of cybersecurity information-sharing standards.

The assessment – produced by a Department of Homeland Security advisory panel and issued in September – aims to advance an insurance industry proposal to build a repository of anonymized cyber incident data that might improve risk mitigation, enable cybersecurity...