“We are all working hard to ensure that alarming headlines about cyber attacks do not come true, but at an industry level, there is certain more we can do together,” he told the RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco.
Young said greater focus is needed on threat intelligence sharing and the lack of cyber security skills because they are “material to the long-term success” of the security industry.
“They are also issues that we can address collectively,” he said. “They rise above anything that individual people or companies are involved in.”
Intelligence sharing is nothing new, said Young, but there are limitations on what has happened so far, and in the light of the complexity and volume of threats, there is an urgent need to scale up the response.
In the past 10 years, the number of new threats seen by McAfee labs has increased from 25 a day to about 500,000, said Young. “Our response has to be of equal scale if we are going to meet our adversary,” he added.
To help meet this challenge, Intel Security has joined some of its competitors in the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) to work on threat intelligence sharing.
“We are doing this because we know we have got to solve this problem one way or the other,” said Young.
Working in the CTA, Intel Security has learned that it all starts with a focus on solving a particular problem rather than just assembling data that is not actionable, he said.
[“Source-computerweekly”]
