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Does best intel come from public or private sector?

Federal Times: Information sharing between the government and private sector has been a fractious issue. Measures such as the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, aimed to curb these schisms. In a more general sense, when it comes to intelligence and information sharing from the private sector or the government, some feel one is not necessarily better than the other.

“I think there’s valuable information provided by both entities,” Chris Boyer, assistant vice president for global public policy at AT&T, said during a Sept. 8 panel discussion at the 2016 Intelligence and National Security Summit. On the private sector side, there are a lot of firms providing intelligence, he said, to which his company subscribes. However, he noted, “we also get information from the government through the NCICC … so we do get some classified information from the government that we do find valuable.”

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