Senators, in closed meeting, hear recommendations for sharing threat indicators, mitigating cyber risk

Private-sector representatives stressed a need for the government to share contextual information about cyber threat indicators at the “lowest level of classification possible” in order to enable mitigating action, in a closed-door meeting with senators.

“There was a common theme about sharing information from the government side,” said one participant in the Wednesday roundtable meeting with members and staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “Which is that, to the extent that the government has information,...