What is Collective Defense?

The notion of Collective Defense is nothing new. From a geopolitical standpoint, NATO has upheld the principles of Collective Defense for decades through its long-standing military alliance. As NATO famously stated: an attack against one member is considered an attack against all members.

The same principle applies in this new approach to cybersecurity, where organizations work together as a unified front in the face of constant threat of cyber attack from nation states, hackers, and criminals. These threat actors are known to work together to share techniques, forming an effective “collective offense” to infiltrate organizations. Through faster sharing of behavioral analytics, signature-based, and human threat insights, organizations collaborating via Collective Defense can more effectively spot malicious activity and greatly reduce attacker dwell time to mitigate threats before damage occurs.