Federal officials aren't living up to private-sector stakeholders' expectations when it comes to sharing information about cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
In a survey of 56 representatives from banking, defense and other industries, 98 percent said they expected at least moderate amounts of "timely and actionable cyber threat information" from their federal partners, but only 27 percent said they were getting it, GAO found. They also reported "a lack of access to classified information, a secure information-sharing mechanism, security clearances and a single centralized government cyber-information source."
The complaints come despite the creation of public-private coordinating councils to protect computer systems and other critical infrastructure, most of which is privately owned. Without improvements on both sides, GAO said, the risk is that those owners will not have the information needed to thwart potentially catastrophic cyber attacks.
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