The Collective Cyber Defense letter wrote your next vendor questionnaire
Op-ed argues the 200-company Collective Cyber Defense letter's three endorsed metrics should become standard vendor procurement questions.
More than 200 companies including Microsoft, Google, AWS, CrowdStrike, Anthropic and Okta signed an August 27 open letter calling for faster cyber defenses against AI-enabled attacks. The letter endorses three measurable metrics: coverage, containment speed, and verified remediation. The author turns those into five concrete procurement questions buyers should pose at vendor renewals, while noting the letter contains no deadlines, dollar figures or measurable targets.
- Over 200 vendors and buyers signed the Collective Cyber Defense letter
- CrowdStrike data: 88% of PoC-exploited vulns attacked within 48 hours
- Letter endorses coverage, containment speed and remediation-verification metrics
- Author proposes five renewal questions to hold signatories accountable
- Signatories sell AI defense products into the same budget the letter expands
- Victims
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More than 200 companies have now signed to an August 27 letter about improving cyber defenses in the age of AI. Buried in it are three metrics every one of them endorse under its own logo: coverage, containment speed, and whether fixes work. Last week, more than 100 companies and organizations published an open letter calling for a rapid acceleration of cyber defense capabilities to combat the capabilities of AI.
By @gregotto · cyberscoop.com
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