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The National Retail Federation (NRF) is creating a...

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is creating a cybersecurity information sharing program, it said in a Monday release (http://bit.ly/Qn7P1S). The platform, dubbed the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), follows a similar effort by the financial industry, which has already…

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developed its own ISAC (http://bit.ly/1iSy4Eo). The retail trade industry has been under the crosshairs of federal agencies and lawmakers because of large data breaches from major retailers such as Target and Neiman Marcus. The move also comes days after the FTC and Department of Justice issued a joint policy statement saying properly sharing cyberthreat information is “not likely to raise antitrust concerns.” The NRF said it expects its ISAC to be functional in June. It will be overseen, in part, by the NRF’s IT Security Council, which includes chief information officers and tech experts from roughly 120 retailers, NRF said.