6.7: Context-Specific Organizations

Promote information sharing through context-specific organizations rather than blanket laws.

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Many observers have stressed the importance of sharing information between private actors as well as between industry and the government. Sharing information allows collective action that can improve the odds for defenders. Firms argue that current laws punish companies for working together, exposing them to risks on the privacy, antitrust and liability fronts. Yet proposals to grant blanket immunity for information sharing can go too far in the opposite direction, compromising privacy and removing incentives to prevent security incidents with blanket liability protections. We must promote information sharing through context-specific organizations rather than blanket laws. Different types of information sharing require different contexts, be it automated data sharing between computer systems or carefully vetted and redacted incident reports. Information sharing is an organizational and architectural problem. The federal government can expand on efforts such as Infraguard and the Defense Industrial Base Collaborative Information Sharing Environment to foster trust and build flexible systems that enable multi-lateral information sharing.

Stakeholder(s):

• Defense Industrial Base Collaborative Information Sharing Environment


• Infraguard

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