As a Cyber Threat Alliance founding member and one of the largest industry threat intelligence contributors, Symantec Enterprise, a division of Broadcom, still believes in the CTA mission and responsibility. Only when the cyber industry works together can we improve cybersecurity across the global digital ecosystem. It’s the right thing…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO Yogi Berra once said, “It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” That’s true unless you are making predictions about cyber threats. In that case, you can simply say that tomorrow will be worse than today, and you will almost certainly be…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO, and Monica Ruiz, Program Manager/ Digital Diplomacy Strategist at Microsoft As cybersecurity practitioners, we strongly support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Diversity in the cybersecurity field, and in the national security realm more broadly, is not where it needs to be. This…
By Michael Daniel, CTA President & CEO, and Megan Stifel, Chief Strategy Officer for the Institute for Security and Technology Over the past decade, the cyber threat has grown worse. Yet we do not know how much worse the problem has become. What is the overall rate of incidents?…
CTA Board of Directors Spotlight: Jaya Baloo, CISO, Avast What inspired you to not only join, but also to help lead CTA? I was very inspired by the mission of CTA, because it’s so important that defenders cooperate. The best way to do that is to share rich and unique…
After hearing the buzzword of “information sharing” throughout my education, my summer internship with the Cyber Threat Alliance has shown me how we make this term a reality through facilitating threat intelligence sharing between private companies. As an undergraduate student at Stanford University studying Computer Science and Political Science, I’ve…
As I write this blog, we’re a little over halfway through 2022. This year has certainly produced some significant surprises – several of which fall into the “what didn’t happen” category. Regardless, though, CTA continues its work to enable members to better protect their customers, aid in the disruption of…
CTA Board of Directors Spotlight: Lee Klarich, Chief Product Officer, Palo Alto Networks What inspired you to found CTA? The threat intelligence information gleaned by threat researchers is invaluable to defending against cyberthreats, and ultimately, it’s our belief that the cybersecurity industry shouldn’t compete on what threat intelligence we all…
CTA Board of Directors Spotlight: Matt Watchinski, Vice President of Cisco Talos What inspired you to be a part of founding CTA? The ability to get all the security companies that had a similar security vision in the same place talking about the same problems. The truly important part we…
Q&A with CTA Founding Member Ken Xie, CEO and Chairman of Fortinet What inspired you to found CTA? In addition to increased performance and integrated technology solutions, IT teams need access to real-time threat intelligence to quickly detect and identify threats and automatically respond at digital speeds. Prior…