IT heavyweights combine forces to fight cyber crime

2008-07-01

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

New security industry consortium formed.

A new security industry consortium was formed last month to provide a forum for IT vendor companies to work together in order to address multi-vendor security threats. The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) is a collaboration between Cisco, International Business Machines, Intel, Juniper Networks and Microsoft, and is organised around four central principles: reducing security threat impact and improving customer security; improving the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-vendor threat resolution and security response practices; creating a unique trusted environment for the sharing of information between vendors; and leveraging the expertise of IT companies from across the world to innovate security response excellence.

The organization plans to share its first accomplishments in late 2008. See http://www.icasi.org/.

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