In a new InformationWeek commentary, GCA Chief Technology Officer Leslie Daigle argues that today’s cybersecurity challenges—from residential proxy networks to AI-discovered vulnerabilities—can’t be solved through blocking alone. Instead, she calls for greater collaboration across the Internet ecosystem to address threats at their source and strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure.
From the article:
“We need more collaborative, global efforts to identify and take down the infected hosts and command and control servers that are supporting the attack campaigns. These are not “nuisance” traffic generators; they are a full-on pandemic. We’ve seen that global progress can be made through thoughtful collaboration. For example, the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security initiative has demonstrated the positive impact of coordinated collaboration in addressing global security threats.
While AI can identify zero-day vulnerabilities faster than solutions can be deployed, the hard work of finding and addressing them still has to be done, as Firefox did. What will be helpful is to lean into the spirit of collaborative open source software and not just patch your own software, but also share the fixes with OSS repositories. Share updates when libraries are scanned and vulnerabilities are found, so that the same libraries don’t need to be scanned by each software company using them.
While mass residential proxy-delivered attacks and AI-identified critical software vulnerabilities may induce adrenaline rushes, the answers will come from real-world collaboration among people, companies and nations worldwide.”
Read the full article: Cybersecurity Beyond Blocking: A Call for Collaboration.