The Industry Consortium for the Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) was formed as a non-profit corporation by a group of leading global IT vendors to create a trusted forum to address international, multi-product security challenges. This trusted forum extends the ability of IT vendors to address complex security issues and better protect enterprises, governments, citizens and the critical IT infrastructures that support them.

ICASI enhances global IT security by proactively collaborating to drive excellence and innovation in security response, ultimately helping to reduce the impact of security threats. ICASI was founded on four guiding principles:

Customer Security
ICASI is committed to improving customer security by enabling its members to proactively collaborate to analyze, mitigate, and manage multi-vendor security challenges. Comprised of international IT vendors, ICASI is uniquely positioned to address complex, global threats and to bridge differences through a coordinated approach that best serves IT customers. Through ICASI’s collaboration and leadership, global IT vendors will be better able to identify and quickly resolve security threats, thereby reducing their impact and improving customer security.

Agility and Effectiveness
ICASI is committed to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of multi-vendor threat resolution and security response and engineering practices. Agile and effective response capabilities reduce the impact of exploits on users, thereby helping to improve IT security.

Collaboration and Trust
Collaboration and trust form the DNA that drives ICASI. ICASI members are committed to collaborating to advance the security of global customers. To facilitate collaboration and trust, ICASI has a code of conduct that governs member actions. Within this trusted environment global IT vendors can more effectively work together to improve security for IT customers.

Leadership and Innovation
ICASI includes leading IT companies and leverages their expertise to innovate processes and practices to enhance IT infrastructure security. ICASI members are committed to contributing their resources and expertise to ICASI’s body of knowledge. Through ICASI’s leadership, global IT vendors and their customers will be better able to advance security response excellence. ICASI shares the results of its work with the industry through papers and other media.