Fortinet inks threat info sharing deal with IBM

FORTINET, a global leader in broad, automated, and integrated cybersecurity solutions, recently announced that it will collaborate and IBM Security through the bi-directional sharing of cyberthreat information.

The goal of the agreement is to proactively combat cyberthreats and threats to privacy globally through the sharing of contextual threat information generated by the Fortinet FortiGuard Labs’ threat research team and IBM Security’s X-Force research team.

IBM Security and Fortinet will directly collaborate through bi-directional sharing of threat intelligence using secure channels. Joint threat information sharing will deliver deep security research expertise and global threat intelligence for increased protection for the customers of each company.

IBM Security and Fortinet global threat research teams monitor and analyze security threats from a variety of sources, providing valuable and near realtime threat intelligence. By integrating the threat intelligence feeds from each company, customers will now benefit from more thorough data being available. While the agreement formalizes the cooperation between Fortinet and IBM Security in regards to threat information sharing, both organizations have already been working together in regards to comprehensive security protections.

IBM Security has been a Fortinet Fabric-Ready partner since 2017. Fortinet’s open approach extends the broad visibility, integrated threat prevention, and automated response of its Security Fabric architecture through well-defined APIs to IBM for unified security management and security incident response.

In addition, Fortinet earlier this year announced collaboration with IBM on the IBM X-Force Threat Management Services. Working with IBM Security on X-Force Threat Management Services enables both organizations to further provide mutual customers with threat insight, attack detection and prevention, and an integrated defense-indepth strategy designed to seamlessly span across an organization’s entire attack surface.