[154738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: U.S. spy agencies ... email for cybersecurity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harry Hoffman)
Tue Jul 10 11:26:34 2012
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:25:31 -0400
From: Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuotvGiithCCb8t3VaXEgHiJuj+mPSPFFOX7yyHuvuf3pmw@mail.gmail.com>
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The government is already doing this via the ISACs.
http://www.ren-isac.net/docs/charter.html
Cheers,
Harry
On 07/10/2012 11:13 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:33 PM, <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Back in the dark ages at the beginning of this millennium (L1on worm,
>> anybody?), the guys at SANS created this thing called DShield.
>>
>> https://isc.sans.edu/about.html#history
>
> Sure. But if what Gen.Alexander says comes off - this looks like a
> US-CERT or other clearinghouse to handle sensitive data of all sorts
> (critical infrastructure attacks, sensitive data leaks / breaches etc)
>
> I can see where DShield - and various other players in similar, but
> heavily silo'd spaces - might coordinate with a neutral centralized
> clearinghouse.
>
