Alain Penel, Regional Vice President- Middle East, Fortinet, discusses why partnerships and continued collaboration in the cybersecurity sector is so important.
As 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 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 lifecycle.
Fortinet is also an active member of an expert working group within INTERPOL for more than two years, providing their cybercrime task force with threat intelligence which has helped to uncover and identify cybercrime operations.
We also are 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.