World’s top 34 technology and securities firms, led by Microsoft and Facebook, have signed a "Cyber-security Tech Accord", a watershed agreement among the largest-ever group of companies agreeing to defend people from malicious attacks by cybercriminals and nation-states.
Cyber-security Tech Accord
The "Cyber-security Tech Accord" is a public commitment among 34 global companies to protect and empower civilians online and to improve the security, stability and resilience of cyberspace.
The Cyber-security Tech Accord agreement will prevent them help governments launch cyber attacks against innocent citizens and enterprises. It will also protect against tampering or exploitation of their products and services through every stage of technology development, design and distribution.
This tech sector accord will help the companies to take a principled path towards more effective steps to work together and defend customers around the world.
These companies made commitments in four areas:
Stronger defence
The companies will mount a stronger defence against cyber-attacks. As part of this, recognizing that everyone deserves protection, the companies pledged to protect all customers globally regardless of the motivation for attacks online.
No offense
The companies will not help governments launch cyber-attacks against innocent citizens and enterprises, and will protect against tampering or exploitation of their products and services through every stage of technology development, design and distribution.
Capacity building
The companies will do more to empower developers and the people and businesses that use their technology, helping them improve their capacity for protecting themselves. This may include joint work on new security practices and new features the companies can deploy in their individual products and services.
Collective action
The companies will build on existing relationships and together establish new formal and informal partnerships with industry, civil society and security researchers to improve technical collaboration, coordinate vulnerability disclosures, share threats and minimize the potential for malicious code to be introduced into cyberspace.
Cyber-security Tech Accord Signatories:
The "Cyber-security Tech Accord" is a public commitment among 34 global companies to protect and empower civilians online and to improve the security, stability and resilience of cyberspace.
The Cyber-security Tech Accord agreement will prevent them help governments launch cyber attacks against innocent citizens and enterprises. It will also protect against tampering or exploitation of their products and services through every stage of technology development, design and distribution.
This tech sector accord will help the companies to take a principled path towards more effective steps to work together and defend customers around the world.
These companies made commitments in four areas:
Stronger defence
The companies will mount a stronger defence against cyber-attacks. As part of this, recognizing that everyone deserves protection, the companies pledged to protect all customers globally regardless of the motivation for attacks online.
No offense
The companies will not help governments launch cyber-attacks against innocent citizens and enterprises, and will protect against tampering or exploitation of their products and services through every stage of technology development, design and distribution.
Capacity building
The companies will do more to empower developers and the people and businesses that use their technology, helping them improve their capacity for protecting themselves. This may include joint work on new security practices and new features the companies can deploy in their individual products and services.
Collective action
The companies will build on existing relationships and together establish new formal and informal partnerships with industry, civil society and security researchers to improve technical collaboration, coordinate vulnerability disclosures, share threats and minimize the potential for malicious code to be introduced into cyberspace.
Cyber-security Tech Accord Signatories:
ABB, ARM, AVAST, BITDEFENDER, BT, CA TECHNOLOGIES, CISCO, CLOUDFLARE, DATASTAX, DELL, DOCUSIGN, FACEBOOK, FASTLY, FIREEYE, F-SECURE, GITHUB, GUARDTIME, HP INC, HPE, INTUIT, JUNIPER NETWORKS, LINKEDIN, MICROSOFT, NIELSEN, NOKIA, ORACLE, RSA, SAP, STRIPE, SYMANTEC, TELEFONICA, TENABLE, TRENDMICRO, VMWARE.
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