Our Commitment to Sharing Threat Intelligence
Summary: Palo Alto Networks' Director of Threat Intelligence describes the company's practice of publishing threat intelligence publicly, citing over 100 blog entries in the last 18 months covering new attacks, attacker infrastructure, and defensive guidance. As a founding member of the Cyber Threat Alliance, the company contributed to an in-depth report on CryptoWall 3 ransomware that affected businesses through most of 2015.
What's compelling: The article argues that public disclosure forces attackers to spend time, money, and resources developing new tools and infrastructure after their methods are exposed - raising their cost of operation. The tradeoff it names is that attackers can also read the reports and adapt, which the author accepts as a risk outweighed by community-wide benefit.
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