The Collective Cyber Defense letter wrote your next vendor questionnaire
Brief
Last week, more than 100 companies and organizations published an open letter calling for a rapid acceleration of cyber defense capabilities to combat the capabilities of AI. The list reads like a procurement catalog. Microsoft, Google, AWS, Cisco, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Anthropic, Okta and Fortinet are on it, alongside buyers like Mastercard, Visa and Capital One.
The public signatory page has since passed 200 companies and organizations, with some such as 1Password, Sophos and Prophet Security, have already published posts of their own detailing their commitment to defenders.
The explanations are worth sitting with. Letters turn into marketing assets faster than they become company concrete action. The buyers decide which one becomes reality.
The diagnosis is correct
I want to be careful about how the skepticism below reads, because the letter has the substance right.