Most experts agree that security technologies based upon signature files (DATs) alone can no longer provide adequate security protection. Cloud-based security intelligence has become a staple that is used by most security vendors including Blue Coat, Cisco, IBM, McAfee, Symantec, and Webroot. The security community at large should embrace two standards coming from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Mitre Corporation: Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) and Trusted Automated Exchange of Indicator Information (TAXII)”]