Threat intelligence: why people don't share

As the cyber threat grows, the UK Government is calling for more cyber-attack intelligence sharing, and is leading the way with its CISP (Cyber Information Sharing Partnership) programme. Across the industry, everyone agrees that intelligence gathering and analysis is vital. But people are torn between the competing merits of paid-for intelligence feeds and ‘free’ public sector schemes. And behind all this is one major problem: people just don't want to share. Tim Ring reviews the best way ahead. One tube-strike morning in early February 2014, the UK Government's Business Secretary Vince Cable called a summit of government ministers, senior intelligence officers, and finance, power, telecoms and transport industry regulators, to take action against the “serious and growing” cyber threat to UK plc.