ETHOS open-source information sharing community opens general membership

The ETHOS (Emerging THreat Open Sharing) community announced Tuesday that general membership is now open for any individual, organization, or security vendor who would like to contribute to ETHOS, its direction, and future developments. The move enables Individuals, organizations, OEMs, and security vendors to contribute developers to build the client-server model for operational technology (OT), information sharing, and early warning to rapidly identify, assess, and respond to emerging threats.

Publicly launched in April, ETHOS is a non-profit, open-source GitHub project in the OT security industry, that intends to share anonymous early-warning threat information with peers and governments across industries and regions. ETHOS is a nonprofit entity run by an independent mutual benefit corporation. Founding ETHOS community members include 1898 & Co., ABS Group, Claroty, Dragos, Forescout, NetRise, Network Perception, Nozomi Networks, Schneider Electric, Tenable, and Waterfall Security. Technology resources are currently privately accessible via GitHub.

The ETHOS platform will correlate information and provide notifications for investigating statistically significant information otherwise not tagged as malicious or included in known threat advisories. ETHOS provides a vendor-neutral option for OT information sharing to combat the growing number of cyber threats to industrial environments. 

An always-on, opt-in, open-source solution that functions like a hotline to correlate information from many security vendors to identify anomalous behaviors will strengthen cybersecurity defenses across heterogeneous process industries, and ensure more trusted government collaboration and collective threat awareness.

The ETHOS Community project is open to any applicant to contribute to the general direction and codebase. Contributors who sign license agreements will be invited to build rules and thresholds for notification of statistically significant events and more.

At this stage, the ETHOS community and GitHub project are working on a proof-of-concept platform and use case before the project is fully public.

Industrial Cyber News Desk

Industrial Cyber News Desk