Following the news that Microsoft has called for security companies to begin working together to eradicate malware families, Barmak Meftah, president & CEO, AlienVault, has commented:
“Today’s modern threat environment demands a new approach to threat intelligence – towards open and collaborative threat sharing. This is a principle upon which AlienVault was founded and we love this way of thinking.
In the information security community, threat information by itself has no value, just importance. That makes a crucial distinction from other industries. The common enemies we face are more profound than the differences we have; threats are evolving and changing so quickly that no one person has the ability to keep up with it all. By working together and sharing information we can expand the reach of our threat data to enable more businesses and organizations to defend against modern day threats."