DIB Opt-In Pilot

Overview
The DoD DIB Opt-in Pilot (Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Exploratory Cybersecurity Initiative) leveraged the DoD DIB Cyber Security/Information Assurance Activities PIA and established procedures and agreements with DIB participants.

During the DIB Opt-In Pilot, DoD] shared [[classified indicators associated with cyber threat countermeasure capabilities directly with commercial service providers (CSPs) in order to protect information on DIB company networks. The DIB Opt-In Pilot focused on two cyber threat countermeasures: 1) the ability to block Domain Name System (DNS) traffic to malicious domains (referred to as DNS Sinkholing), and 2) e-mail filtering that would include quarantining incoming infected messages.