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<\/strong>The Homeland Security Department plans to update\u00a0its system for automatically sharing cybersecurity threat information with companies, critical infrastructure providers and other federal agencies this coming summer or fall, a top official said\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\nMore than 200 organizations have signed up to automatically receive the indicators, but most of them aren\u2019t using that information to automatically block malicious traffic into their networks, Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary in Homeland Security\u2019s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications,\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
Generally, that\u2019s because customer organizations say the indicators don\u2019t include enough information for them to determine what\u2019s truly relevant, Manfra told an audience at the industry group\u00a0US<\/span>\u00a0Telecom\u2019s cybersecurity policy\u00a0forum.<\/p>\n Homeland Security hopes to remedy that with the update, she\u00a0said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re not automating the whole \u2026 process, it\u2019s not really getting us to that next level of automated defense,\u201d Manfra\u00a0said.<\/p>\n