AI info-sharing center is in development, CISA official says

(L-R) Courtney Lang, ITI VP of Policy, Nick Andersen, EAD for Cybersecurity at CISA, and Drew Bagley, chief privacy officer CrowdStrike, speak onstage during a Feb. 3 Information Technology Industry Council summit. David DiMolfetta/Staff

An “ongoing policy dialogue” between stakeholders is the latest update in the development of a cyber intelligence-sharing body focused on AI security that the White House ordered last year, a top Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official said.

Nick Andersen, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, provided the update about the AI Information-Sharing and Analysis Center, or AI-ISAC, at the Information Technology Industry Council’s Intersect policy summit on Tuesday. 

The info-sharing group, unveiled last summer as part of the sweeping White House AI strategy, is being discussed among industry and government officials working to pull together the right resources for the center without accidental duplication, Andersen said.

“We just want to make sure ...