13-02-2015 03:04 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Obama to encourage companies to share cyber threat data

By Joseph Menn and Roberta Rampton SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is set to sign an executive order on Friday aimed at encouraging companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats with the government and each other, a response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment . The order sets the stage for new private-sector led "information sharing and analysis organizations" (ISAOs) - hubs where companies share cyber threat data with each other an
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