CTA News

Cyber Threat Alliance Thriving in 2022

As I write this blog, we’re a little over halfway through 2022.  This year has certainly produced some significant surprises – several of which fall into the “what didn’t happen” category. Regardless, though, CTA continues its work to enable members to better protect their customers, aid in the disruption…

The Industry

How CTA Helps Turn Industry Fragmentation into a Strength

With each day, cyberspace grows larger, more complex, and more integral to our societies and economies. The increased dependence on the Internet means that incidents that would have been merely annoying fifteen years ago can now cause catastrophic damage. Cybersecurity has made a parallel transition, shifting from a “nice…

Best Practices

3 Aspects to Managing Systemic Cyber Risk

This blog on the importance of managing systemic cyber risk is reposted with permission from NETSCOUT, a Contributing Member of the Cyber Threat Alliance. This blog was authored by Michael Daniel, CTA President and CEO, as a guest posting for NETSCOUT’s blog. Cyberspace enables connections, whether between individuals, organizations,…

The Industry

Combating Botnets through Consumer IoT Cybersecurity Labeling

Written by: Yongjia Chen, Dathan Duplichen, Andrew Shu, Anna Nguyen Yip Although the ransomware threat currently gets the most attention, botnets remain a significant problem in the digital ecosystem. As part of our capstone project in the Master’s in International Policy degree program at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International…

The Industry

Implementing the Ransomware Task Force’s Recommendations in the Cybersecurity Industry

This week, the Ransomware Task Force released its report on combating ransomware.  The RTF, sponsored by the Institute for Security & Technology, is made up of more than 50 expert volunteers from software companies, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions.  The Task Force’s report is timely and its…

Best Practices

Government Handling of Zero-Days: More Sunlight, Fewer Shadows

This post was originally authored by Josh Kenway. To say the least, 2020 was a turbulent year. While certain governments responded to the spread of COVID-19 more effectively than others, the pandemic’s disruptive impact on human society is sure to linger well into this new decade. The paramount importance of…

CTA News

Cyber Threat Alliance Turns 4!

On January 23rd, CTA turned four.  It seems like both a long time and a brief moment since our six founding members officially incorporated the organization as a non-profit.  Since then, CTA members and staff have worked hard to turn the company into a viable long-term sharing organization.  In that…

CTA News

Looking Back on 2020

Maybe it should be unsurprising that 2020 has no intention of going quietly. By the beginning of December, it had already given us a sudden explosion in remote work, COVID-19 themed lures, a ransomware surge, election disinformation, and 5G deployment battles. Yet, 2020 was not finished. As we head…

CTA News

What Does 100 Million Get You?

On September 9th, CTA reached a major milestone for our automated sharing program. Since our founding as an independent non-profit in 2017, CTA member companies have shared over 100 million cyber threat observables. Although it may seem banal in some ways, this simple statistic represents an enormous accomplishment in its…