Avast (AVST), a global leader in digital security and privacy, and RiskIQ, a leader in Internet Security Intelligence, announced a threat intelligence partnership. Under the agreement, the companies will use their specific areas of expertise to develop combined threat intelligence that will be offered to their customer bases to enhance their security practices.
“At Avast, we recognize that no one provider can see the whole picture. That’s why we partner broadly to improve the threat intelligence available to companies and also to improve our ability to protect our customers,” said Nick Viney, Senior Vice President, Partner Business, Avast. “Our global threat intelligence will contribute to RiskIQ’s understanding of the global threat landscape, and Avast will leverage RiskIQs intelligence to enrich our own data and further scale our threat hunting and response capabilities for companies and consumers alike.”
Avast’s threat intelligence platform protects hundreds of millions of endpoints from internet threats, powered by threat intelligence from Avast’s global network, one of the largest and most geographically diverse threat detection networks in the world. Avast’s advanced analytics enable insight into thousands of malware families, including how they are detectable before customers are impacted and how those threats evolve as bad actors attempt to evade detection.