DoD Sharing Threat Data With Critical Industries

Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that for the past two years, the Defense Department has been collaborating with critical industries to stem the loss of important defense industry data — by some estimates at least $100 billion worth over that time. The Pentagon is considering ways to share its threat data with other industries including telecommunications and Internet service providers, led by the DoD's Cyber Crime Center, the clearinghouse for threat data from the NSA, military agencies, the DHS, and industry. The Pentagon's trial program with industry illuminates the promise and the pitfalls of such partnerships: a reluctance of intelligence and law enforcement agencies to release threat data they consider classified, and the companies' fear of losing control over personal or proprietary information. 'This isn't just about national security,' says Barbara Fast, vice president of Boeing Cyber Solutions. 'It's about the economic well-being of the United States.'"

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Always been about foreign exploitation

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national security...It's about the economic well-being of the United States

As Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, Americas most highly decorated Marine by the time of his death pointed out in his short book War is a racket; all military/spy agency has ever been is about "economic well-being" for a select few, and was _never_ about National Security. Using his unmatched experience "protecting" the US around the world, he went on to explain why economic well being and real National Security are apposing goals.