Some of the world's largest tech companies are joining forces to better track cyberattacks

August 28, 2022

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Some of the world’s largest tech companies have set their goals to Raise the bar for sharing how they track cyberattacks with new cyber intelligence.

Open Cybersecurity Architecture Framework (OCSF), developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Splunk, IBM’s cybersecurity arm, and a dozen other technologies Powered by giants, it was launched during the recent Black Hat USA conference.

Once running, OCSF will be able to standardize notifications from different network security monitoring endpoints(opens in new tab)

, helping businesses interpret incoming intelligence faster.

more open standards for interoperability

“People wish we could figure it out This is what Patrick Coughlin, vice president of Splunk’s Security Markets Group, told The Wall Street Journal(opens in a new tab)

.” They said, ‘We have Tired of complaining about the same challenges. ‘”

A recent report from the Information Systems Security Institute found that more than three-quarters of 280 security professionals want them of cybersecurity tools are more interoperable, and the best way to achieve this is through open standards. “Safety Leaders are grappling with a widening integration gap Patrick Coughlin, group vice president of Splunk Security Markets, said: “This is something the industry needs to address together.”

As the current situation In other words, IT teams are forced to operate multiple dashboards for different types of events, such as logging in.

Sometimes they even have to write extra code, or reformat the data, just to get the data from one dashboard to display correctly, on the other hand. “There’s a lot of custom AWS Chief Information Security Officer Mark Ryland toldThe Wall Street Journal .

Once open standards are established and accepted, this should not be the case anymore. “We will benefit from it,” he concluded.

Documentation work, which will be hosted in a specially set-up GitHub repository, started over a year ago at Symantec.

in addition to support from AWS, IBM and Splunk, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare Inc, DTEX Systems, IronNet, JupiterOne, Okta, Salesforce, Securonix, Sumo Logic, Tanium, Zscaler and Trend Micro.

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Sead is a Senior freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). During his more than ten-year career, he has written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera. He also conducts several content writing modules for Represent Communications.