STIX and TAXII: On the road to becoming the de facto standard

The road to blissful cyber threat intelligence sharing often feels like a bumpy dirt track in a Wild West ghost town, but there's hope on the horizon: A new language, designed to define and describe a broad swath of threat activity, is beginning to take shape. This language, known as STIX, and its transport method, called TAXII, offers security firms, industry, and government the promise of better and faster cyber threat intelligence sharing.

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