India, June 3 -- CrowdStrike and Microsoft have partnered to create a unified system for identifying and tracking cyber threat actors, aiming to simplify how adversaries are named across different vendors and improve global defence coordination.

The two companies are introducing a shared mapping system that links threat actor aliases used by different cybersecurity platforms. This initiative is designed to address a long-standing problem in the industry; the confusion caused by multiple naming conventions for the same cyber adversary.

As cyber threats grow more complex and frequent, security professionals often face delays and miscommunication due to inconsistent naming of threat actors. This can hinder response times and lead to gaps i...