Global Payment learns what went wrong last month when hackers pilfered information from some 1.5 million accounts on its computers. The payment processor should share those findings with others, including competitors. Congress must enact legislation to provide information sharing between government and business. Cybersecurity Act of 2012 would make Global Payments’ responsibility to share what they learn easier through mechanisms known as cybersecurity exchanges, where companies would share information about cyberthreats and vulnerabilities. Congress is bogged down in a partisan battle on whether or not government should regulate the mostly private owners of the critical IT infrastructure.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/global-payments-patriotic-duty-to-share-p-1241