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Written by Joe Chen, VP of Engineering, Broadcom Five years ago, Symantec, now an enterprise division of Broadcom, proudly became a founding member of the Cyber Threat Alliance as a not-for-profit organization. CTA was founded with the mission to share threat information and better protect the mutual customers of our members. It is important to […]

Written by Kathi Whitbey, Principal Business Operations Manager, Unit 42 As I reflect on the last five years following the creation of the CTA, I am humbled by the growth, cooperation, and respect that our organization has developed from the simple idea that the only way to beat our adversaries was to find a way […]

Written by Jason Min, Head of Business Development, Check Point Software Technologies As Check Point celebrates the 5th birthday of the Cyber Threat Alliance, we are honored to continue our partnership with them. Check Point became a Charter Member because we strongly believe in the CTA’s mission to improve the overall security of the global […]

Back in 2013, I had just taken over as the Chief Security Officer for Palo Alto Networks. Literally, I was weeks in the job, when my boss, Mark McLaughlin, the CEO, called me into his office to assign me a special project. He and Ken Xie, the Fortinet CEO, and one of Palo Alto Networks’ biggest competitors, had an idea.

Written by Matt Watchinski, VP, Global Threat Intelligence Group, Talos, Cisco Cisco Talos sets out every day to make the internet a safer place. But we can’t always fight the good fight alone. That’s why we are so proud of what we’ve accomplished with the Cyber Threat Alliance, which turns 5 years old today. We […]

Written by the TEHTRIS Team TEHTRIS understands that there is strength in numbers and has chosen to join the Cyber Threat Alliance, alongside other experts in the field, to share our unique, high value-added threat intelligence markers in order to contribute to a safer digital world. The professionalization of ransomware groups, the maturity of attackers, and […]

Written by Devin Lynch, Senior Director, Policy & Government Affairs, SecurityScorecard As CISA’s 4th Annual National Cybersecurity Summit concludes this week, the theme for the final day is “The Power of Partnerships.” Before national cybersecurity month concludes, we should take a moment to join CISA and consider the power of partnerships. We all want the […]

Written by Carol Hildebrand, Senior Writer, Security, NETSCOUT The COVID-19 pandemic handed some Herculean tasks to many enterprise IT and cybersecurity teams.  First, IT had to adjust architectures and practices to support a massive, unplanned shift to remote work for those who were able to work at home. Many companies implemented large-scale remote-access architectures, as […]

Written by Jon-Louis Heimerl, CISSP, Sr. Manager, Threat Intelligence Communications, NTT Ltd. As 2020 drew to a close, NTT Ltd worked on our annual Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR). The data showed some interesting results, so I asked Michael Daniel what kind of impact he thought COVID-19 was having on the world of cybersecurity. Michael […]

Written by Derek Manky, Chief of Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances, Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs With the 4th anniversary of the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) having just occurred, I got to thinking about how the CTA started. Not with the incorporation of the organization in 2017, but with the actual founding of CTA back in 2014. […]