Welcome to cybersecurity awareness month which has kicked off in a highly unusual manner. Eighteen companies in the industry have joined forces in an effort to improve cross-product interoperability through an initiative called the Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA). Launched by the open standards group OASIS, OCA brings together the likes of IBM Security, McAfee, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Fortinet, ThreatQuotient, and more to develop “protocols and standards which enable tools to work together and share information across vendors”.