Try opposite of 'divide and rule' for fighting cyberthreats- HP's advice

INDIA: According to a recent survey of 234 organizations conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the number of security breaches increased 20 per cent and the cost of individual breaches increased 30 per cent over last year. These trends indicate that cybercriminals are working harder and smarter to gain access to sensitive data and inflict damage on corporate reputations.

With organizations in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) experiencing cyber-crimes caused by malicious insiders, denial of service and web-based attacks that they are unable to stop due to outdated or insufficient threat intelligence, enterprises need to strengthen their security posture to defend their organizations.

HP announced it is unveiling new solutions and services that enable organizations to proactively share threat intelligence and openly collaborate as an industry to combat the growing ecosystem of adversaries.

"Advanced attack techniques and collaboration in the criminal market place is fuelling an increased rate of costly security breaches in APJ," said Jyoti Prakash, country director - HP ESP (India & SAARC countries) "Crowd-sourced threat intelligence from our vast community of customers, partners and researchers is essential in this battle against cybercrime. By sharing actionable intelligence through our solutions, expertise and best practices, organizations can more effectively address the new threat environment."

HP's new offerings are claimed to bring together solutions and services to help the industry share intelligence and build a united defense against adversaries.

HP Threat Central, developed with HP Labs, is explained as a collaborative security intelligence platform that enables community members to share threat data and analysis, providing real-time intelligence on adversaries, attack vectors, methods and motivations behind current threats.

HP is initially working with partners including Arbor Networks, Blue Coat Systems, InQuest, ThreatGRID, TrendMicro and Wapack Labs, to deliver strategic threat intelligence and actionable indicators to the HP Threat Central community.

In addition to intelligence shared by community members and partners, HP Security Research and HP Enterprise Security Services will contribute intelligence feeds to the HP Threat Central platform. The platform also will power the HP ArcSight and HP TippingPoint portfolios. "Chief information security officers (CISOs) and other senior-level security professionals must be able to plan not only for threats that exist now, but also for those that may emerge in as much as three years' time or beyond," wrote Rob McMillian, research director, and Kelly Kavanagh, principal research analyst, Gartner. They go on to write, "Assessing current and potential future threats requires advanced threat intelligence that most organizations are not capable of developing cost-effectively in-house."