U.S.-based retailers are planning to establish an industry group for collecting and sharing cyber-threat intelligence in an attempt to thwart cyber-attacks similar to the one that compromised Target’s customers, Reuters reports. The National Retail Federation will form the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) by June. ISACs generally are run by security centers that operate 24 hours per day and alert members about emerging and potential threats, the report states. There are already a dozen such ISAC groups for financial, healthcare and other service industries. One expert said, “It will allow them to talk to each other about things (that) are hitting them, to know quickly if other people are experiencing the same things and if they’ve found good defenses that they can tell each other about.”
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