The Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC) is working with the Financial Services ISAC (FS-ISAC) on a new threat intelligence-sharing platform.
The retail industry said it will adopt the financial services industry’s portal for sharing cyber attack and threat intelligence. The move brings the two intel-sharing organisations closer together in their efforts to identify, share, and thwart attack attempts on companies in their industries.
“We evaluated a number of different platforms to help enable information-sharing for retailers … and given the stage of our [organization’s] maturity, and the amount of interaction with the financial services industry, we selected FS-ISAC’s portal and technology platform,” says Brian Engle, executive director of the R-CISC, who notes the R-CISC remains its own independent intel-sharing organisation for the retail industry. “Our portal rides on the same technology as the FS-ISAC’s. [But] there’s a separate instantiation for retail.”
Engle says the two will “be distinct and different” organisations and portals, but will be able to share as needed intel affecting both retail and financial sectors.
Meanwhile, FS-ISAC also has been working with the legal sector on intelligence-sharing options for law firms, including the possiblity of establishing a legal sector ISAC. William Nelson, president and CEO of the FS-ISAC, said that there’s no official word yet on the legal sectors plans, but he expects to FS-ISAC to offer a similar relationship to the legal industry that it has with retail, including the infrastructure for their operations.
“We would set up a separate portal for them and share information like we are with retail and vice versa,” he said
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