Infosecurity – Sharing threat intelligence is considered by both government and industry as essential to countering online criminality; but it seems that industry can move faster than government. This week, both AlienVault and HP are announcing separate information sharing initiatives; and both describe the issue in similar terms.
“Criminal attackers have a community,” blogs Barmak Meftah, president and CEO of AlienVault ahead of a speech this week; “they have long shared information quite successfully to facilitate their exploits… Couple this with the ‘attacker’s advantage’ of choosing where, when and how to launch attacks, and it is no surprise that collaborative hackers appear to be winning against respected brand companies, despite their generous spending on security protection tools.”