Information Access and Information Sharing: Where We are and Where We are Going

Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, will discuss the challenges of information access in today's world. He will also describe the information sharing vision of DHS: is a future where cybersecurity information, such as indicators of specific cyber threats, is shared widely across the public and private sectors at machine-speed and in formats that can be immediately used for network defense. To achieve this goal, cyber threat indicators must be a public good, rather than a market differentiator between companies. When cyber threat indicators are a unique commodity, they are only shared among discrete communities - and we are all less secure. But when cyber threat indicators are not a profit driver for security firms and have zero marginal cost for network defenders, we can achieve information sharing that moves more quickly than our adversaries.

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