Information Sharing

From the first community cybersecurity exercise the CIAS at UTSA conducted in San Antonio in 2002, information sharing has been a key element of the community cybersecurity program. Information sharing is essential in the protection and detection aspects of programs such as the NIST cyber security framework. Information sharing helps to alert other organizations to ongoing reconnaissance and attack efforts by attackers. When it comes to cybersecurity, organizations are not in competition with each other but instead are partners in a mutual defense against attackers. This has not been an easy lesson to learn, and it has taken time, but today, there are many robust information sharing programs that help various sectors and geographic regions to band together to help each other in efforts to thwart attacks against any member of the group. Information sharing is an integral part of the community cyber security maturity model and can in fact help provide a catalyst to launch an overall cybersecurity program for a community.

Activity of Information Services on Culture and Art of the Central Libraries of the Subjects of the Russian Federation: from the Experience of the Recent Years

This article presents the main changes taken place, to the authors’ opinion, in the perception and practice of libraries'work on information support to specialists in the sphere of culture and art, such as: forms of participation, individual and group information sharing, creation of the resource base, mass work. In particular, the article notes increasing credibility of libraries as organizations, able to monitor the state of regional library sphere. Publishing has become an important integral part of libraries activity. Much more events of complex nature requiring high analytical skills are being held. One can highlight the main consumer groups of information and analytical products of libraries. They are: executive authority and research staff of cultural institutions and high schools. The article is based on the results of written and oral surveys of about 40 central libraries of the subjects of the Russian Federation, on the analysis of publications and libraries’ reports from the website “Central Libraries of the RF Subjects: Corporate Full-Text Database for Professionals” and from other Internet resources.