Participants in the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection on Friday called for government/private sector information sharing, updated regulations, and improving the trust citizens have in the government’s respect for privacy and civil liberties.

The overriding message of the one-day event at Stanford University was that the government and private businesses need to share data they have about cyber threats in order to formulate faster responses and more fully understand the actual threat environment, says White House homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco. “There’s no other way to tackle such a complicated task,” she says.

She says cooperation can strengthen security and the ability to disrupt and respond to cyber attacks. That will result in more resilient networks that raise the costs for bad actors to launch successful exploits down the road. That in turn will mean fewer groups and individuals will have the resources to mount credible attacks.

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