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Stronger Together

In this blog post, we look at what our members have been saying, through guest blogs and profiles in CTA’s quarterly newsletter, about how we are delivering on the core aspects of our mission: protecting end users, disrupting malicious actors, and elevating overall security. The CTA community knows that we are… Read More

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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,… Read More

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Shoring Up Your Phishing Defenses

By the National Cyber Security Alliance, a partner of the Cyber Threat Alliance  From ransomware to SolarWinds, the cybersecurity space has been as hectic as ever over the last 12-24 months. However, for all of the emerging threats that are cropping up on the horizon, phishing — one of the… Read More

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CTA’s Giant-Sized Anniversary Issue – Early Share #500

When you read superhero comics, you know something exciting is going to happen when you get an issue with a milestone number, like 100, 250, or 500. Those anniversary issues are always giant-sized and start or end a huge storyline (like Amazing Spider-Man #300, when Venom first appears and Spidey… Read More

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Updating the 2020 Summer Olympics Threat Assessment

The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) released our first threat assessment focusing on the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo way back in February 2020. Around the release date, we were seeing stories of a novel coronavirus beginning to spread. Some of us were starting to get concerned about it here in… Read More

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CTA: A Trusted Environment

The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) Sharing Model relies on our organization’s status as a trusted environment for all of our private-sector members, as well as public sector and civil society partners. That trust also allows us to do so much more. The fact that all of CTA’s private-sector… Read More

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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… Read More

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Data Diversity: The CTA Advantage

Despite the general turbulence unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic, CTA has continued over the last year to mature as an organization in terms of both our threat intelligence sharing and membership growth. Of course, these two aspects are closely intertwined. Because our membership rules require all CTA members to share,… Read More