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FS-ISAC and DTCC launch cyber security JV Soltra

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The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have formed a joint venture to develop and market automation solutions that advance cyber security capabilities and the resilience of critical infrastructure organisations, including financial services firms and others worldwide.

The joint venture, named Soltra, has been established to deliver software automation and services that collect, distil and speed the transfer of threat intelligence from a myriad of sources to help safeguard 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-reliability, critical infrastructure for data processing.
 
Over 125 FS-ISAC members and representatives from other critical sectors, government entities and the private sector contributed to the requirements, architecture and design of Soltra’s automation software, the Soltra Edge solution.
 
Soltra Edge will connect and streamline the flow of threat intelligence between communities, people and devices by processing large amounts of threat data, improving efficiencies and enabling immediate action to counter the threat and mitigate risk.  Soltra Edge is currently being tested by users and will be generally available in late 2014.
 
“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 organisation’s incident becomes everyone’s defence. The solution will enable clients to send, receive, and store cyber security threat intelligence in a streamlined and automated format, enabling these firms to deploy safeguards against a potential cyber attack.”
 
“As a joint venture, Soltra has assembled a world-class team and support from some of the most respected companies in the world in order to architect and build a solution for tomorrow’s information sharing,” says Bill Nelson, president of Soltra and president and CEO of FS-ISAC. “Today’s threat intelligence sharing must occur at network speeds. It needs to reduce the workload for security analysts and for smaller organisations. It needs to be available for all critical sectors in order to share information within each sector and also cross-sector to increase resiliency from cyber threats.”

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