As one of his first actions, President Joe Biden hired a team of cybersecurity experts to help the US defend against cybersecurity threats.
Experts are one approach to defense, but there might be a simpler answer: End-user organizations need to share their data to keep themselves, and their customers, safer.
Data is critical to defending against cybercrime and can be used to identify new forms of malware as they spread across the Internet. Data about people's usual behavior — where they typically log in from, whether they usually sign in on their phone or from a computer — can be used to protect user accounts.
Yet cybercrime data has long been hoarded by security vendors that feel their competitive advantage relies on their ability to protect themselves and their users better than their competitors.
This data hoarding leaves users at risk.
Companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Disney, and Twitter use their data to identify when a login from your account seems suspicious and alert you to protect your account. It is common to receive an email from one of these entities warning, "Someone suspicious is trying to log in to your account. Is this you?"
Yet few of us receive comparable emails from the small business through which we buy children's toys, play ..
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