IBM Security and McAfee have been joined by 14 other firms to form the OASIS consortium to tackle interoperability .
Under the OASIS banner the firms will work on the Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA) to try to increase the interoperability between products to reduce those problems and share information around threats and the best responses.
Carol Geyer, chief development officer of OASIS said: “Today, organisations struggle without a standard language when sharing data between products and tools, We have seen efforts emerge to foster data exchange, but what has been missing is the ability for each tool to transmit and receive these messages in a standardised format, resulting in more expensive and time-consuming integration costs. The aim of the OCA is to accelerate the open sharing concept making it easier for enterprises to manage and operate.”
Jason Keirstead, chief architect, IBM Security Threat Management said: “When security teams are constantly spending their time manually integrating tools and maintaining those integrations, it’s not helping anyone other than the attackers. The mission of the OCA is to create a unified security ecosystem, where businesses no longer have to build one-off manual integrations between every product, but instead can build one integration to work across all, based on a commonly accepted set of standards and code,” he added.
The alliance has started with a membership of 16 but has made it clear that other vendors are welcome to join.
