Australian Signals Directorate boss Rachel Noble says the agency’s $5 billion threat-sharing partnership with Microsoft is a “force multiplier”.
Already a subscriber?Hackers leave fingerprints, Australia’s top cyber spy Rachel Noble says. The voluntary but confidential sharing of those tiny little markers that a cybercriminal has broken into a company allows thethe ASD has become the first government agency anywhere in the world to integrate its own intelligence platform – Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing – with the US technology giant’s Sentinel threat monitoring software in Australia.
Ms Noble, ASD director-general, said these types of public-private partnerships are invaluable in the fight against cyber threats.The Australian Financial Review“Some of these criminal actors, for example, they go about their business in a way that is like a fingerprint.
“Then the company chooses whether they want to block, so they have complete control of what they choose to do on their network.”ASD’s partnership with Microsoft gives it an even greater view of potential threats by plugging its CTIS system into Microsoft’s Sentinel, which does analysis of 65 trillion signals of global threat intelligence daily.
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