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s the digital and physical worlds become more
interconnected, threat intelligence sharing is becoming an
increasingly critical component of any security strategy.
Better information and processes supported by critical
information sharing enables organisations to better detect and stop
new and emerging threats everywhere along the kill chain and will
continue to tip the outcome of the existing cyberwar in the favour
of the folks tasked with protecting our critical cyber and physical
resources and helping drive the emerging digital economy.
Intelligence sharing needs to occur at every level of the digital
infrastructure, including the collecting and sharing of intelligence
locally across devices within the network, sharing threat
intelligence between industries or regional peers, or subscribing to
global threat feeds.
Fortinet is thoroughly committed to extending and expanding
cyberprotections to all organisations to help combat the growing
scourge of cybercrime through strategic industry partnerships.
For example, our latest collaboration with IBM Security plays a
critical role towards achieving that goal in which we collaborate through
the bi-directional sharing of threat intelligence across secure channels.
Together, our global threat research teams monitor and
analyse security threats from a variety of sources. This joint threat
information sharing process now combines our deep security
research expertise to increase the amount of valuable and actionable
threat intelligence to protect our customers better.
Our role in supporting the battle against cyberthreats extends
beyond vendor partnerships. Fortinet is a founding member of the
Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) which was essentially created to provide
the granular intelligence that security professionals need to identify
and thwart an attack at numerous places along the kill chain.
Its goal is to bring together strong contributors in the
cybersecurity market together to share cyberthreat intelligence
to help organisations better defend against cyberadversaries
and improve the overall security of the Internet. CTA’s automated
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WHY ARE
PARTNERSHIPS
AND CONTINUED
COLLABORATION IN THE
CYBERSECURITY SECTOR
SO IMPORTANT?
ALAIN PENEL, REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT – MIDDLE EAST, FORTINET
platform enables its members to contribute
to the overall security of the Internet by
providing real-time threat intelligence that
can significantly reduce time to detection
and close the gap in the detection-to-
deployment life cycle.
Fortinet has also been an active member
of an expert working group within INTERPOL
for more than two years, providing
its cybercrime task force with threat
intelligence, which has helped to uncover
and identify cybercrime operations.
We have also signed an industry
partnership agreement within the
framework of the NATO Industry Cyber
Partnership (NICP) with the NATO
Communications and Information (NCI)
Agency, and a cybersecurity information
sharing agreement with KISA, the Korea
Internet and Security Agency.
Actionable threat intelligence sharing has
become an essential element of any security
strategy if organisations hope to stay ahead
of this rapidly evolving and expanding threat
landscape. Sharing threat intelligence keeps
devices and organisations tuned to the latest
threat outbreaks and helps filter out the
growing noise of the digital marketplace so
that security teams and devices can more
readily identify critical issues.
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