A year ago I
addressed cybersecurity specialists to let them know about a new tool we’d developed. Our
Open Threat Intelligence Portal (OpenTIP) offers the same tools for analysis of complex threats (or merely suspicious files) as our
GReAT cyberninjas use. And lots of other folks use them now too, testing zillions of files every month.
But a lot has changed in the past year, with practically the whole world having to
work remotely because of coronavirus, which in turn makes life more difficult for cybersecurity experts. Maintaining the security of corporate networks has become a hundred times more troublesome. As precious as time was before COVID-19, it is even more dear now — and today, the request we get most from our more-sophisticated users is simple and direct: API access and higher rate limits..........