From: Department of Justice
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it will not challenge a proposal by CyberPoint International LLC to offer a cyber intelligence data-sharing platform known as TruSTAR. The TruSTAR platform allows members to share threat and incident data along with attack information and develop remediation solutions to help define more effective strategies across industries to prevent successful cyber attacks.
The department’s position was stated in a business review letter to counsel for CyberPoint, from Bill Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.
CyberPoint’s proposed information sharing system is designed to address shortfalls in conventional, legacy information sharing services, while operating within the framework set forth in the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission’s Antitrust Policy Statement on Sharing of Cybersecurity Information. 1 Assistant Attorney General Baer cited to the department’s April policy statement with the Federal Trade Commission to underscore that “the federal antitrust agencies recognize the important role that information sharing plays in securing the nation’s IT infrastructure.” He further said that “[t]he antitrust laws are not an impediment to legitimate private-sector initiatives to share specific information about cyber incidents and mitigation techniques in order to defend against cyber attacks.” In approving the proposed TruSTAR platform, he concluded that the operation of the TruSTAR platform, as proposed, would be unlikely to facilitate price or other competitive coordination.
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