The consortium, as a shield
Five leading information technology companies - Cisco, IBM, Intel Corporation, Juniper Networks and Microsoft Corp. -- Formed an industry consortium to strengthen Internet security. This nonprofit organization is designed to strengthen the global information technology security through innovative preventive measures to improve the efficiency of combating threats. Over the past few years the nature of such threats on the Internet has changed dramatically. Instead of viruses and worms have appeared much more sophisticated hacking attempts simultaneous multiple products or common protocols in several products. The agreements will allow the leading IT manufacturers to collaborate and reflect the attack perpetrated against products while several suppliers. The consortium will provide the basis for customer support and create a neutral methods permit (without the participation of government) major global incidents in the area of information technology security. Generally, the increasing comp...