{"id":26698,"date":"2019-12-30T18:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/12\/30\/how-good-is-the-government-at-threat-information-sharing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:17:25","slug":"how-good-is-the-government-at-threat-information-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/home\/2019\/12\/30\/how-good-is-the-government-at-threat-information-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"How good is the government at threat information sharing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over and over cybersecurity officials in the civilian government, the intelligence community and the Department of Defense say the same platitude: information sharing is important. Often, however, little insight, or metrics, back up exactly how well they are doing it. But a new joint report from inspectors general across the government found that information sharing among the intelligence community and the rest of government \u201cmade progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report, titled \u201cUnclassified Joint Report on the Implementation of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015\u201d and released Dec. 19, found that cybersecurity threat information sharing has improved throughout government over the last two years, though some barriers remain, like information classification levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information sharing throughout government has improved in part because of security capability launched by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence\u2019s Intelligence Community Security Coordination Center (IC SCC) that allowed the ODNI to increase cybersecurity information all the way up to the top-secret level. The capability, called the Intelligence Community Analysis and Signature Tool (ICOAST), shares both indicators of compromise and malware signatures that identify the presence of malicious code. According to the report, the information from the platform is available to \u201cthousands\u201d of users across the IC, DoD and civilian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information sharing within the IC has also improved due to the creation of several websites within its top-secret networks that contain threat indicators and several different types of summary reports on cyber activity and vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\t