July 12, 2024 at 02:34PM
The top US cloud service providers are collaborating on a National Cyber Feed Initiative to provide real-time threat-monitoring data to federal cybersecurity authorities. The effort aims to improve threat intelligence sharing and cybersecurity. Challenges remain, including standardizing data delivery and making the information consumable. The initiative has gained momentum and is seen as beneficial for both the government and the cloud service providers.
From the meeting notes, I have extracted the key points as follows:
– Five major US cloud service providers (CSPs) – Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Oracle – are joining forces to form a National Cyber Feed initiative, with the goal of providing continuous threat-monitoring data to federal cybersecurity authorities.
– The Cloud Safe Task Force (CSTF) is spearheading this public-private partnership and has defined various metrics for the national feed.
– The current threat intelligence reporting is delayed, and there is a strong push for real-time actionable intelligence.
– There are ongoing discussions around how CSPs can share data without posing competitive, compliance, or data-leakage risks to each other, and the need to find a common approach to sharing data from different frameworks.
– Standardization, management, and integration of data for the national feed are under discussion, including the use of AI for intelligent data summarization.
– Continuous monitoring is highlighted as a critical requirement, with a call for continuous testing and predictive threat modelling.
– There is momentum and a potential win-win situation for both the government and the CSPs in advancing the cyber feed initiative.
These takeaways highlight the significant progress and challenges discussed during the meeting.