Facebook has developed a platform where organizations can share information about security threats that they face in order to better capabilities to fend off cyber attacks.
The need to increase the exchange of data between companies or threat between the private and public sector, a hot topic in the electronic security conferences in recent years.
Has long had a corporate security solutions private channels for the exchange of data among themselves, but this form of cooperation is restricted, because a lot of them and they have a rival business models revolve around providing the intelligence and security as a service to customers.
Some companies also share information about the attacks through a dedicated industry groups, but this leaves them do not know how to face attacks on companies in other industries that can affect later Eilhm also.
So Facebook revealed Tuesday unveiled a new platform, called it "Threat Exchange" ThreatExchange.
And gave birth to the idea of this platform over a year ago when I tried several Internet companies, including Facebook, stop Bots retina was misusing its services to send spam.
Model best
He said team director infrastructure threats at Facebook, Marc Hamel, on Wednesday, "quickly learned that the sharing of information between each other is the key to beating the robots because parts of it are being hosted on each of us services did not have a complete picture of us." Hamel said, "During our discussions, it became clear that what we needed was a better model for the sharing of threat."
And built "Threat Exchange" platform on the existing infrastructure at Facebook which provides companies with APIs to query or download the new threat data. This information includes where malicious domain names, and samples from malicious software and other indicators of penetration.
Hamel also said that "there is a built-in control platform allows companies to share some of the information only with selected groups of organizations, for example, mechanisms for those facing the same problem."
The Twitter, Yahoo, Templar and Penterist one of the first participants in the program and test the platform when it was being developed. Box cloud storage service and then joined, and service shortcut links Bitly, Inc. Bitly recently. Facebook hopes that other companies will soon express their interest in participating.
He said Hamel The goal is that organizations use worldwide platform "Threat Exchange" in order to learn from each other and make their systems more secure, "This is the beauty of working together on security. When one company to become stronger, the rest of the companies to do so."...
