Facebook launched a social network for information security professionals

Facebook has launched a beta social network for security guards : ThreatExchange . It is assumed that, with the flexibility to adjust the visibility of posts, the new network will allow for more effective exchange of information about threats without the risk of its premature disclosure, and hence the exploitation of vulnerabilities by bad guys.

The website itself looks more like a stub and an attempt to stake out a place in the light of Barack Obama’s recent appeal to the American nation, during which Obama once again spoke of the seriousness of the threat and announced funding and the creation of a federal agency against cyber attacks. At the time of writing the topic on the ThreatExchange website, several paragraphs of the text and a registration form are available, where you are asked to enter a name, position, work address and choose your role - information consumer, provider or both. After filling out the form, you will be shown again the information that you have sent and promise to contact you soon.

The texts mention the early partners of social networks: Bitly, Dropbox, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and Yahoo.

There is also a reference to the ThreatData threat and incident management framework (English). The framework consists of three subsystems - feeds, data storage and threat response system that operates in real time and locks links from feeds, automatically processes malicious files and the transfer of information to the information security systems of a company using a network.