U.S. To Share Cybersecurity Info With Russia

Countries also plan to use existing crisis-prevention communications links between the two countries to establish protocols for communicating about cybersecurity

Dark Reading Staff, Dark Reading

July 13, 2011

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The United States plans to start regularly sharing cybersecurity information with Russia as part of the Obama administration's efforts to re-establish closer ties to that country and clear up misconceptions surrounding the two nations' cyber policies.

Cybersecurity officials from both countries met last month to discuss policy coordination at a Russian delegation in Washington led by Russian National Security Council Deputy Secretary Nikolay Klimashin, according to a White House blog post by U.S. Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.

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