Threat Exchange - Social Media platform from facebook for sharing Cyber Security threats

Facebook  launched a new platform called ThreatExchange for security, professionals to exchange information about cyberthreats with greater ease.

 

"Our goal is that organizations anywhere will be able to use ThreatExchange to share threat information more easily, learn from each other's discoveries, and make their own systems safer," Mark Hammell, Facebook's manager of threat infrastructure, wrote in a blog post announcing the project.

 

Advantage of this new platform  is researchers and professionals can learn from each other, and help keep everyone's systems safer.The new platform builds on Facebook's ThreatData, a framework that stores cyberthreat information (such as bad URLs) for analysis by security pros.Currently, ThreatExchange is in beta, but for those interested in participating, there's a sign-up form over on its website. 

 

Security threats aren't typically relegated to just one target, and the lack of communication between malware targets ends badly for everyone, according to ThreatExchange. So far, some pretty big-name Internet players have joined Facebook on ThreatExchange, including Bitly, Dropbox, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and Yahoo. The platform expect to attract more partners as time goes on.

 

Facebook thinking about this new idea about a year ago because malware attack for thier websites. Any way Threat Exchange is a good news for social media companies to keep thier data safe.