The Cloud Safe Task Force aims to unite the US government and cloud service providers, like Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, to provide a "National Cyber Feed": a continuous threat-monitoring tool for federal agencies.
The top five US cloud service providers (CSPs) are part of a new and wholly unprecedented effort to set aside competition and create a National Cyber Feed — with an aim to deliver continuous threat-monitoring data to federal cybersecurity authorities. However, as with most things, the devil is in the details.
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Oracle are all participating in the National Cyber Feed Initiative, which is a top priority of the Cloud Safe Task Force (CSTF), formed last fall by MITRE, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC), and the IT Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC). The idea behind this public-private partnership is "to create an integrated, single national view of our nation's security," according to a CSTF white paper published last month.