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United States : FS-ISAC, DTCC forms strategic partnership named SOLTRA [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), a company focused on sharing critical cyber security threat information globally, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, declared the formation of a strategic partnership to build and market automation solutions that advance cyber security abilities and the resilience of critical infrastructure organizations, including financial services companies and others globally. The joint venture, named Soltra(TM), has been formed to deliver software automation and services that collect, distill and speed the transfer of threat intelligence from a myriad of sources to aid secure against cyber attacks. Soltra leverages FS-ISAC s 14 years of information-sharing and analysis for critical infrastructure as well as DTCC s expertise in high-scale, high-dependability, critical infrastructure for data processing. A true cross-industry effort, over 125 FS-ISAC members and representatives from other critical sectors, government entities and the private sector contributed to the needs, architecture and design of Soltra s automation software, the Soltra Edge(TM) solution. Named after one of the best-known medieval beacon fire networks in Europe that warned of invaders, Soltra Edge will connect and streamline the flow of threat intelligence between societies, people, and devices by processing large amounts of threat data, enhancing efficiencies and allowing immediate action to counter the threat and mitigate risk. Soltra Edge is presently being tested by customers and will be generally available in late 2014. The solution has been developed to scale to support thousands of organizations and distill large amounts of data into actionable intelligence that is easy to understand and use. It leverages open standards including Structured Threat Information eXpression (STIX ) and Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information (TAXII ). The solution will include the platform, infrastructure and ecosystem to aid individual organizations of all sizes, other Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs), Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), industry bodies and private sector vendors to come together to streamline threat information sharing using STIX and TAXII. Today, most cyber threat information is provided manually to users from various, unconnected industry sources. Because of this, on average, it can take firms seven hours to evaluate each threat, states Mark Clancy, CEO of Soltra, CISO of DTCC and Board Member of FS-ISAC. With Soltra Edge, one organization s incident becomes everyone s defense." (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |