AlienVault, an AT&T company that specializes in security management, says its Open Threat Exchange (OTX) threat intelligence community has reached 100,000 participants worldwide.The company also has posted 36 percent year-over-year OTX participant growth, according to a prepared statement.OTX encourages global security professionals to discuss, research, validate and share cyber threat data, trends and techniques, AlienVault said. By doing so, OTX helps organizations minimize the risk of data breaches.Key features of OTX include:OTX participants from more than 140 countries contribute 19 million pieces of threat data every day, according to AlienVault. Participants also can access threat data from a variety of AlienVault partners, including the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), Intel and Microsoft.In addition, AlienVault offers a partner program that enables MSSPs to add MDR, threat and malware detection, compliance management and other security services to their portfolios. This program also provides MSSPs with ongoing threat intelligence from AlienVault Labs, which analyzes, validates and curates global threat data collected by OTX participants.
- Endpoint Security: Offers a free threat scanning service to help OTX participants identify malware and other endpoint threats.
- Pulses: Provide threat summaries and indicators of compromise (IOC).
- Research: Enables security professionals, threat researchers and cybersecurity vendors to interact with one another to create and consume threat data.
How Does AlienVault Support MSSPs?
More than 500 MSSPs leverage AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) Anywhere, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides threat detection, incident response and compliance management across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments. They can use USM Anywhere to deliver a variety of managed security services, including:- Cloud security monitoring.
- Compliance management.
- Log management, monitoring and archiving.
- Managed detection and response (MDR).
- Managed security information and event management (SIEM) or SIEM-as-a-service (SIEMaaS).
- Vulnerability assessment and remediation.
