Paul Gillin reports:
Paul Kurtz believes US enterprises have a fundamental disadvantage in fighting cyber attacks: The bad guys are cooperating with each other while the good guys work alone.
Concerns about government regulation, bad publicity and intellectual property theft prevent organizations from telling anyone outside their four walls about security threats they face, said Kurtz (right), former cybersecurity advisor to the White House under Presidents Clinton and Bush and director of counterterrorism for the National Security Council. The result: victims fight attackers with one hand tied behind their backs. “The paradigm of each of us trying to defend ourselves must change,” he said.
Kurtz is trying to do something about it. He’s teamed up with former eBay, Inc. Chief Information Security Officer Dave Cullinane to launch TruSTAR Technology, LLC, a SaaS platform which they describe as the industry’s first global anonymous cyber incident-sharing platform.
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