Five IT vendors have formed an organisation called the
Industry Consortium for Advancement
of Security on the Internet.
Cisco,
IBM,
Intel,
Juniper Networks and
Microsoft have formed the not-for-profit group to address
multi-product security threats in increasingly complex IT
infrastructures.
The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the
Internet (Icasi) said it will focus on combating wide-reaching
worms and viruses as well as more sophisticated stealth attacks
targeting multiple products or shared protocols in multiple
products.
Icasi will sit alongside existing commercially-backed Internet
security bodies such as
the Sans Institute and
security specialists such as Symantec
who publish reports
detailing the most pressing
web security issues.
Icasi will allow IT vendors to work together to address
multi-vendor security threats, said the group: "The consortium will
provide a mechanism for international vendor and customer
involvement. To date there has not been a trusted vendor
environment that allows companies to identify, assess and mitigate
multi-product, global security challenges together on the
customers' behalf. Icasi aims to fill this void."