DHS partnership with service providers gives high-risk industries more visibility of cyberthreats
Staying ahead of malicious actors is challenging, but organizations can take advantage of advanced threat intelligence through partnerships the Department of Homeland Security created with accredited communications service providers. A new report explains that critical infrastructure operators, businesses and government agencies can gain unique access to threat signatures, network traffic patterns and emerging cyberthreats by working with Enhanced Cybersecurity Services (ECS) providers that have unique access to DHS’s wealth of threat intelligence. The tech brief, produced by CyberScoop and underwritten by CenturyLink, highlights how the DHS-ECS partnership can provide top executives in industry and government powerful insights gleaned from active monitoring both by DHS and global network carriers like CenturyLink. A global communications provider like CenturyLink monitors about 114 billion NetFlow sessions and 1.3 billion security events per day, the report says. By combining real-time insights from that volume of network activity with DHS’s cyberthreat intelligence, ECS providers are able […]
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