How To Share Threat Intelligence Through CISA: 10 Things To Know

If you want those liability protections the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act promised, you must follow DHS’s new guidelines.

Share information about breaches, attacks, and threats with the federal government without fear of the legal repercussions — that’s the alluring promise of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, passed as the Cybersecurity Act of 2015). However, those liability protections do not apply to any and all sharing, so if you want to be safe from litigation, you must share information through the guidelines recently released by the US Department of Homeland Security.

Security and privacy professionals alike were anxiously awaiting these guidelines because they answer some of the pervading questions about how privacy would be protected when CISA passed. They also provide some instructions — particularly for non-federal entities — on precisely how to conduct their information sharing activities under the new law. For the full article click here 

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