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New alliance aims to unite malware fight
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Wed Aug 19 11:37:35 2009
New alliance aims to unite malware fight
by Vivian Yeo
August 19, 2009
www.cnet.com
A new alliance has been created to formalize information sharing on
security protection and develop industry standards.
The Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG) is parked under the IEEE
Standards Association and includes mostly security heavyweights and
antivirus players. The founding members are AVG Technologies, McAfee,
Microsoft, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro.
Announcing the group in a blog post on Monday, Mark Harris, vice
president of SophosLabs, said security researchers have had a tradition
of sharing virus samples but that the sharing arrangements "are still
based on individual relationships rather than formal agreements."
The formation of the group makes for a "more organized" security
industry, he added, in the current landscape where attacks are
increasingly structured and malware samples grow at "astonishing rates."
For the rest of the article, see:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10313027-83.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
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