14 DAY TRIAL // Experts from United Kingdom intelligence agencies MI5 and GCHQ, and ones from the private sector have joined forces against the cyberattacks that target the country. A Facebook-like web portal will allow them to share vital information that will help them mitigate threats from cyberspace.
The new government “fusion cell,” based at an undisclosed location in London, is part of the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CISP), and it will allow the analysts that take part in it to share information with certain entities, The Telegraph reports.
“What the fusion cell will be doing is pulling together a single, richer intelligence picture of what is going on in cyberspace and the threats attacking the UK,” said one senior official.
“What we are trying to do is get that better intelligence picture and push it out to industry in a way that they can take action on, so it is very action-orientated.”
160 firms – which will not be named – from the pharmaceutical, finance, energy, telecoms and defense sectors will take part in the initiative.