As the world becomes more interconnected and interdependent, the need has arisen for a new, more effective way to respond to global Internet security threats.

The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) is a forum of trust through which information technology (IT) industry leaders address multi-product security challenges to better protect the IT infrastructures that support the world’s enterprises, governments, and citizens.

The Growing Internet Security Threat
Several trends are contributing to a rapidly evolving threat landscape and presenting new challenges across the global IT infrastructure:

• Global Internet traffic is growing 40-50 percent per year.
• There are now almost two billion Internet users, with four billion users expected by 2013.
• Much of this growth is coming from the developing world.
• Internet-based attacks are rapidly increasing in frequency, sophistication, and complexity. In 2010, there were some 13,762 vulnerabilities reported – more than 12 times as many as in 2000. Today's cyber attacks are more complex and often difficult to detect, and can target classes of users – even specific users – gaining access to valuable data and causing significant harm.

All of these trends result in exponential increases in complexity and interdependence that drive a need for a new generation of security response and engineering. ICASI was formed to proactively address this specific need.