Sharing Indicators of Compromise (IoC) with Netskope’s Cloud Threat Exchange (CTE)
 
“You can’t defend against threats that you are not aware of”
 
What is IoC and Why share it?
IoC stands for Indicators of Compromise and as the name suggests, it points to technical identifiers or behavioral patterns which help to identify if a particular system or network or artifact has been compromised. Anything which helps to identify a particular malicious activity could be an IoC, ranging from an executable, hash, IP Address, URL, etc. As the quote above implies, organizations cannot safeguard themselves from threats and attacks they are unaware of. Utilizing heuristics can narrow the divide between familiar and unfamiliar threats, but pinpointing specific criteria significantly accelerates the process and demands fewer computational resources. That’s where a robust and strong IoC sharing program comes into lay. Through the efficient and effective exchange of IoCs among security telemetry tools, each tool acquires IoC data from others, contributing to enhanced detecti