The Czech company Avast donated half a million dollars, ie about 12.2 million crowns, to an international non-profit organization The Shadowserver Foundation. Thanks to data collection and analysis, it creates a network for improving cyber security.
This is the largest single contribution this year. Trend Micro announced a $ 600,000 grant in May, but it is spread over three years. The Internet Society contributed $ 400,000.
Avast contributed to the organization urgent challenges, thanks to which it can continue to operate and it was possible to move the data center at a cost of $ 400,000. $ 2.1 million was raised this year.
Shadowserver collects data on cyber traffic, security and threat intelligence from various companies and market players, makes their own scans over them and creates them honeypoty. These results are then provided, for example, to national security CSIRTs or entities such as the FBI, Interpol and Europol.
“The organization (Shadowserver) scans the entire IPv4 Internet on a daily basis, it operates sinkhole infrastructure and operates an extensive network honeypotů a honey clients for information collection. The organization also collects raw data, analyzes malware and maintains up-to-date samples, ”describes the cyber security chief Jaya Baloo |.
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