PCMag.Com - The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have established a pilot program with leading private defense contractors and ISPs called DIB Cyber Pilot in an attempt to strengthen each others' knowledge base regarding growing security threats in cyberspace, a high-ranking DOD official told a gathering of global security experts this week."[F]or all the military capability that information technology enables, it also introduces vulnerabilities," said Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn, speaking at the 28th Annual International Workshop on Global Security in Paris on Thursday. "We learned this lesson in 2008 when a foreign intelligence agency used a thumb drive to penetrate our classified computer systems—something we thought was impossible. It was our worst fear: a rogue program operating silently on our system, poised to deliver operational plans into the hands of an enemy.
"The cyber threat continues to grow, posing new dangers to our security that far exceed the 2008 breach of our classified systems."
The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cyber Pilot program was started last month, Lynn said. The voluntary program involves sharing the DOD's classified threat intelligence with defense contractors and their private Internet service providers (ISPs), "along with the know-how to employ it in network defense."
He said DIB Cyber Pilot does not involve "monitoring, intercepting, or storing any private sector communications" by the DOD and DHS. More
