DHS info-sharing official stresses 'exchange' to encourage companies to share with government

DHS officials are using the term “exchange” in talking about sharing cyber-threat indicators with industry, in an effort to encourage companies to share back with the government, said the deputy director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.

“We like to say information exchange to try to get information back from you,” Christopher Butera told a group of lawyers at the Georgetown University Law Center's Cybersecurity Law Institute annual summit on Wednesday. “The government has been doing a pretty...