Retailers Now Actively Sharing Cyberthreat Intelligence

  • 30 October 2014
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Considering all the breaches of the last 12 months it is fantastic to see something actually working well.
 
10/30/2014  Kelly Jackson Higgins
 
"The retail industry's R-CISC has been up and running for four months now and is looking for more retailers to sign up.
 When a threat alert arrived about a new malware threat during a recent industry gathering of retailers, a group of them immediately left the room to check in with their home networks. The intel came in the form of an email via the retail industry's new intelligence-sharing program, the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC).
"We happened to be having a meeting... and someone got intel on some malware. Immediately, people got up [and left the room] and checked on their systems and detected it," says Suzie Squier, senior vice president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), which spearheaded the formation of the R-CISC. "
 
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