Letter: Combating Cyberattacks

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"An Eerie Silence on Cybersecurity" (editorial, Feb. 27) correctly describes the challenges organizations face. As a security researcher, I have only recently seen organizations open up about cyberattacks.

My team and I have developed a threat platform that has encouraged more than 30 government and industry organizations to share intelligence in a beta test of our system. Users are anonymous, a critical aspect for successful sharing in today's climate.

This project sheds light on why information sharing is so challenging. Perhaps the most chilling reason wasn't explicitly described in your editorial; organizations aren't prepared or equipped to detect many compromises. While larger organizations with bigger budgets stand a better chance, smaller organizations struggle to identify cost-effective measures to detect, much less remediate, intrusions.

It's important to keep these issues in the public light. We need more intelligence sharing if we're going to combat the ever-increasing onslaught of attacks.

CHRIS SMOAK
Atlanta, Feb. 28, 2013

The writer is a research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

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