Security professionals in law-abiding companies may have felt very alone. Criminal attackers have a community they have long shared information quite successfully to facilitate their exploits. The recent exploits against retailers only came together in the press there was evidently very little threat sharing or collaboration among retailers before the successful exploit, as the retailers fell like dominoes. To help fix the problem, AlienVault created the crowd-sourced Open Threat Exchange. Since the launch of OTX two years ago, we have seen substantial growth in participation with more than 8,000.”]