McAfee and Symantec Join Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks as Co-founders of the Industry's First Cyber Threat Alliance

The mission of the Alliance is to conduct cyber threat a coordinated industry effort against cyber adversaries through deep threat intelligence cooperation and exchange of indicators of commitment.

While industry efforts of the past have often been limited to the exchange of malware samples, this new alliance will provide more information on actionable threats contributing members, including information about zero-day vulnerabilities, botnet command and control (C & C) server information, mobile threats, and indicators of compromise (IOCs) related to advanced persistent threats (APT) and samples of commonly compartidos- malware. By raising collective actionable intelligence industry, participants in the partnership will provide greater certainty for individual clients and organizations.

In addition to the evolution of the structure and statutes alliance, co-founders of Fortinet, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec will increasingly devote resources to determine the most effective mechanisms for sharing data from advanced threats to foster collaboration between all members of the alliance and move forward together in the fight against sophisticated cyber adversaries. 

QUOTES

• "Fortinet, along with Palo Alto Networks, welcomes McAfee and Symantec as co-founders to the alliance; the combination of each of these leading technology vendor's observations, insights and solutions will significantly increase the alliance's construct and effectiveness."      

Ken Xie, chairman and CEO of Fortinet

• "We must match our adversaries' aggressive drive to innovate with our own deeper commitment to collaborate.   It's no longer enough to share and compare yesterday's malware samples. As an industry, we need to understand and be poised to react to the latest complex and multidimensional attacks of today and tomorrow. This cyber alliance provides a critical framework for educating each other on the infrastructure and evolving tactics behind these attacks."

Vincent Weafer, senior vice president for McAfee Labs, part of Intel Security

• "The growing participation by industry leaders in the alliance provides great benefits for all the member companies' customers as shared intelligence and collaboration is instrumental in combating today's most sophisticated cyber criminals.  This is a clear example of customer interests being more important than any individual company's interests."

Mark McLaughlin, CEO and president at Palo Alto Networks

• "Cyber security breaches are getting larger, more costly and more frequent. Symantec is pleased to be a founding member of the Cyber Threat Alliance, which commits to sharing information about advanced attacks. By working together to thwart the next generation of cyber-attacks, we will be more effective in fighting to keep the Internet safe for users around the world."

Adam Bromwich, vice president of Security Technology and Response at Symantec

About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) helps protect networks, users and data from continually evolving threats. As a global leader in high-performance network security, we enable businesses and governments to consolidate and integrate stand-alone technologies without suffering performance penalties. Unlike costly, inflexible and low-performance alternatives,Fortinet solutions empower customers to embrace new technologies and business opportunities while protecting essential systems and content. Learn more at www.fortinet.com
About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks is leading a new era in cyber security by protecting thousands of enterprise, government, and service provider networks from cyber threats.   Unlike fragmented legacy products, our security platform safely enables business operations and delivers protection based on what matters most in today's dynamic computing environments: applications, users, and content.