Under the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act agencies have taken steps including making such information more accessible among them. Image: enzozo/Shutterstock.com
Sharing among agencies of information on cyber threats and defensive measures against them “has improved over the past two years, and efforts are underway to expand accessibility to information” about them, according the inspector general for the intelligence community.
A report said that under the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act agencies have taken steps including making such information more accessible among them, creating a centralized repository for cyber threat intelligence and vulnerability data, and increasingly automating the sharing of such information. Pertinent agencies include parts of the Commerce, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, Justice and Treasury departments, plus the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Those entities “use policies and procedures that are sufficient” for carrying out the law’s goals of promoting the voluntary sharing of such information both within the government and with non-federal entities, and that they share such information “in a timely and adequate manner and with appropriate entities.”
They further “did not receive information that was unrelated to a cybersecurity threat that included personal information of a specific individual or information identifying a specific individual” and “did not need to take steps to minimize adverse effects on the privacy and civil liberties of U.S. persons from activities carried out under the Act because there were no known adverse effects,” said the report, which made no recommendations.
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