Organizations in the Semiconductor Industry face more or less the same (cyber) threats. Lets collaborate and build a collective defense by sharing best practices, cyber threat intelligence via a neutral platform. We will all benefit.
In short, Cybercrime is on the rise and all organizations worldwide are ramping up to defend themselves. There are only a few issues that we need to take into account: 1) Attackers, some of them are supported by Nation States, share information with each other. They are actively leveraging their individual expertise to attack for a common benefit. To keep pace, industry needs to actively share threat analysis and effective defensive mitigations. 2) The threat landscape is too complex for any one company to defend against alone. There are too many threat actors, too many vulnerabilities and too few resources for any one company to adequately address the threat by itself. Companies are stronger when working together. 3) Third, the economics of cybersecurity favor the attackers. It is more expensive to defend than it is to attack. Defenders need therefore to maximize their resources.
This analysis is relevant for ALL industries, not just the Semiconductor Industry. One of the best practices comes from the Financial Industry. They early on recognized the issues about fighting cybercrime and started to actively collaborate and create synergies to ‘protect the global banking system’ and make sure that Banks and the payment industry is trusted by all. They have found a way to do this without violating Anti-Trust/Legal issues.