Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that for the past two years, the Defense Department has been collaborating with critical industries to stem the loss of important defense industry data — by some estimates at least $100 billion worth in the past two years, reflecting the cost to produce the data and its value to adversaries and the Pentagon is considering ways to share its threat data with other industries, including telecommunications and Internet service providers, that handle vastly larger amounts of data, including phone calls and private e-mails. The threat scenarios, experts say, are chilling: a months-long blackout of much of the United States, wide-scale corruption of electronic banking data, a disabling of the air traffic control system. The Defense Department's Cyber Crime Center is the clearinghouse for the threat data from the National Security Agency, military agencies, the DHS and industry. The goal of the program is swifter, more coordinated response to threats facing the defense industry but the Pentagon's trial program with industry illuminates the promise and the pitfalls of such partnerships: a reluctance of intelligence and law enforcement agencies to release threat data they consider classified and the companies' fear of losing control over personal or proprietary information. "This isn't just about national security," says Barbara Fast, vice president of Boeing Cyber Solutions. "It's about the economic well-being of the United States.""
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