http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2013/08/dod-hires-ibm-exec-boost-industry-cybersecurity-program/69146/
By Aliya Sternstein
Defense One
August 22, 2013
The U.S. military has tapped an IBM executive to encourage Pentagon
contractors to come clean about network breaches that might compromise
government data, Defense Department officials said.
Daniel Prieto III will serve as director of cybersecurity and technology
for Defense chief information officer Teri Takai.
Prieto, previously a vice president for IBM's public sector global
business services, was recruited to increase participation in an exchange
of cyber incident reports among willing defense industrial base firms and
the government, Pentagon officials said on Wednesday.
"Prieto will be charged with improving and growing the voluntary
information sharing program between the government and the private sector
DIB companies, which is designed to improve DIB network defenses and helps
DIB companies and the government to reduce damage to critical programs
when defense information is compromised," Defense spokesman Lt. Col.
Damien Pickart said.
The two-pronged effort involves the dissemination of contractor breach
reports -- stripped of identifying information -- among all participants,
as well as a component that discloses highly-classified intelligence on
malware discovered by the National Security Agency. The idea is that
cleared contractors or their cleared Internet providers can feed the
threat indicators into anti-virus programs to preempt attacks.
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