ThreatExchange was introduced by Facebook yesterday to assist tech companies to query available cybersecurity threat information and publish their own. The idea of ThreatExchange came up about a year ago when a group of technology companies came together to discuss automated spam attacks on their servers.
During their discussions, it was made clear that a better model was needed for threat sharing.
ThreatExchange was built upon an internal threat analysis system it had created called ThreatData.
ThreatExchange includes a set of privacy controls so that participating firms can share only with the group or groups they wish.
Dropbox, Bitly, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, Yahoo and other tech companies are now using Facebook to share information about threats to their computer systems.
According to Facebook’s Hammel, the goal is that organizations anywhere will be able to use ThreatExchange to share threat information more easily, learn from each other’s discoveries, and make their own systems safer.
