Feds to private businesses: Cough up your cyber intelligence

Corporations will be asked to contribute cyber intelligence to a new federal agency tasked with analyzing threat data culled from as many public and private sources as possible in order to more quickly spot attacks and attribute them to the guilty parties.

President Obama has announced formation of a new agency – the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) – that will gather data broadly and scrutinize it so the U.S. has a single analysis of cyber incursions, a lack that complicated and delayed the administration’s response to the Sony hack.

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