Security News > 2022 > August > Traffic Light Protocol for cybersecurity responders gets a revamp
There is also an important protocol that helps humans in IT, including researchers, responders, sysadmins, managers and users, to be circumspect in how they handle information about cybersecurity threats.
That protocol is known as TLP, short for the Traffic Light Protocol, devised as a really simple way of labelling cybersecurity information so that the recipient can easily figure out how sensitive it is, and how widely it can be shared without making a bad thing worse.
Interestingly, not everyone subscribes to the idea that the dissemination of cybersecurity information should ever be restricted, even voluntarily.
Instead, the cybersecurity industry has largely settled on a sort-of middle ground for reporting cybersecurity information, known informally as responsible disclosure.
How to label these different levels of cybersecurity information unambiguously?
Putting TLP:CLEAR on the content that they can share, and perhaps that you want them to share in order to increase awareness, makes it your attentions abundantly clear, if you will pardon the pun.