Retailers Now Actively Sharing Cyberthreat Intelligence

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/retailers-now-actively-sharing-cyberthreat-intelligence/d/d-id/1317086

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
10/30/2014

The retail industry's R-CISC has been up and running for four months now 
and is looking for more retailers to sign up.

When a threat alert arrived about a new malware threat during a recent 
industry gathering of retailers, a group of them immediately left the room 
to check in with their home networks. The intel came in the form of an 
email via the retail industry's new intelligence-sharing program, the 
Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC).

"We happened to be having a meeting... and someone got intel on some 
malware. Immediately, people got up [and left the room] and checked on 
their systems and detected it," says Suzie Squier, senior vice president 
of the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), which spearheaded the 
formation of the R-CISC.

R-CISC, which RILA announced back in May, has been up and running for 
about four months now, gradually ramping up to 100 member retail 
organizations participating in the industry's information sharing and 
analysis center (ISAC). Target, American Eagle Outfitters, Gap, JC Penney, 
Lowe's Nike, Safeway, VF, Walgreens, and other major retailers, sit on the 
board of directors of the R-CISC, a portal-based threat 
intelligence-sharing platform for retailers that includes feeds from 
government and other industry sources, and provides threat analysis. It's 
open to all retailers -- not just RILA members -- including small 
merchants and online-only e-commerce sites.

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