Obama calls for enhanced cyber threat communication

US President Barack Obama signs a decree designed to stimulate the exchange of information on cyber threats between companies and organizations and government agencies.

The president will sign a decree at a White House-sponsored conference on cyber security and consumer protection at Stanford University in California. He arrived in California on Thursday.

The decree also contains a recommendation for the Ministry of National Security to develop voluntary standards for the exchange of information for legal entities.

Such an initiative followed the scandalous hacking of computer systems of such enterprises as film studio Sony Pictures Entertainment, Anthem insurance company, Target and Home Depot retail chains, EBay e-commerce platform and JPMorgan Chase bank. A number of US cyber attacks have also been attacked. So, hackers broke into the computers of the White House and the State Department (the hacked computers were not classified), as well as the accounts of the Central Command on Twitter and YouTube.

Responsibility for some attacks rests on hackers from Russia, China and North Korea.

Earlier this week, the White House announced the creation of a new federal agency that will analyze the threats to the country's cyber security and coordinate a strategy to combat them.

President Obama’s administration is creating the Cyber ​​Threat Intelligence Integration Center as a means of coordinating cyber threat intelligence gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies. The center will be managed by the director of national intelligence.

Currently, the United States does not have a special agency responsible for coordinating cyber threat assessments, quickly sharing information between existing agencies, and providing timely information to authorities, notes Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, writes Voice of America.