IDG Contributor Network: Are you buried under your security data?

In a good article this week, Ben Dickson at TechCrunch writes about the sharing of threat intelligence data between companies. I will confess upfront that I am skeptical about the whole idea of threat intelligence sharing. Companies may decline to share such information because they fear the loss of competitive advantage. Some who are otherwise agreeable will just decide they don't have the time to be bothered.

As I see it, the big problem facing the security world today is not the lack of information, but rather the ability to process and act on it. Most of us find it a challenge to keep up with our email inboxes, let alone security logs and reports. If we cannot use our own data to advantage, why would we expect to be able to use one or more threat intelligence feeds?

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