Security outfit Avast is forming an intelligence partnership with RiskIQ. Under the agreement, the companies will use their specific areas of expertise to develop combined threat intelligence that will be offered to their customer bases to enhance their security practices.
Avast Senior Vice President Nick Viney said that no one security company can see the whole picture and it was important to form alliances.
“Our global threat intelligence will contribute to RiskIQ’s understanding of the global threat landscape, and Avast will leverage RiskIQs intelligence to enrich our own data and further scale our threat hunting and response capabilities for companies and consumers.”
Avast’s threat intelligence platform protects hundreds of millions of endpoints from internet threats, powered by threat intelligence from Avast’s global network. Avast claims its advanced analytics enable insight into thousands of malware families, including how they are detectable before customers are impacted and how those threats evolve as bad actors attempt to evade detection.
RiskIQ CEO Lou Manousos said that RiskIQ and Avast share a mission and the alliance will make things a lot more effective.
“Avast helps us enrich our understanding of the global threat landscape and we welcome them to our Interlock Partner Programme.”
RiskIQ’s Interlock Partner Programme lets members deploy RiskIQ attack surface visibility and internet security intelligence across their enterprise security ecosystem (or infrastructure) for automated and informed threat detection, investigations, and prevention.
