Los Angeles wants the city to fight cyber crime as a unit.
The city announced the first collective regional cybersecurity defense effort in the United States on Tuesday, called the Los Angeles Cyber Lab.
The goal is to disseminate knowledge gained from analyzing "one billion security-related events and over four million attempted intrusions into city networks per day" to businesses across the city, according to a press release put out by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
"The lab will alert small and medium-sized business partners to attacks as they occur, and larger businesses can receive automated updates to their own cyber defense systems," wrote the authors of the press release. "Over time, the platform will evolve into a mutual exchange of threat information with private sector partners, further fortifying L.A.’s capacity to thwart cyber criminals." Read more...
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