Security experts: Cyber sharing isn't enough

CIO:  The benefits of federal legislation to govern private and public sector sharing of cyber threat information are being oversold -- and the risks are being too easily dismissed.

That was the consensus of a dozen speakers and panelists at the second annual Senior Executive Cyber Security Conference in Baltimore earlier this month. And it runs counter to the view held by government leaders from President Obama on down, and some leaders in the private sector as well, who've been saying for years that without a legal framework for such sharing, there's little hope for either sector to fend off cyber attacks.

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