Fortinet targets cybercrime accountability gap with human intelligence and bounty program
Cybercrime has evolved into a borderless criminal ecosystem, with attackers collaborating across networks and moving faster than defenders can respond, thanks in part to AI. That imbalance is fueling a new cybercrime bounty program designed to crowdsource the human intelligence law enforcement needs to make arrests, rather than just tracking malware and infrastructure.
Fortinet Inc.’s FortiGuard Labs is focused on closing the accountability gap, not just improving detection, is what will finally slow the growth of an industry now rivaling the world’s largest economies, according to Derek Manky (pictured), chief security strategist and global vice president of threat intelligence at FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet.
“We know that cyber criminals are converging their groups. They are working with nation state APTs, they’re also launching crime services that continue to fuel the third-largest GDP in the world, which is cybercrime,” Manky said. “The idea on the gaps that we’re trying to solve is to really focus on the human intelligence. That’s why we launched the cybercrime bounty program with Crimestoppers International, to do the attribution, which is the toughest thing to do in the world of threat intelligence.”
