Interpol: Cybercrime fighters?(Company Business and Marketing)

Electronic Business, September, 2000 by Harbert, Tam

A Silicon Valley start-up is trying to convince Interpol--the international police organization--to help it foster a public-private partnership to combat cyberattacks. Atomic Tangerine, Menlo Park, CA, an Internet and network security consulting company that spun out of SRI International late last year, wants Interpol to supply to it information on cyberattacks against its 178 member countries.

In return, private companies in a group organized by Atomic Tangerine would supply information about attacks against their networks to Interpol. Because companies often don't want customers and shareholders to know about security breaches, today only one in 10 hacker attacks are publicly reported, says Jonathon Fornaci, president and CEO of Atomic Tangerine. ...

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