3. Meet with your competitors:

The threat community can also increase security by sharing their information with other security professionals within the company. For example companies with crucial infrastructure can share their security data’s with Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) or the FBI's Infragard program.

Cowperthwaite said the companies with no so critical infrastructure and who can’t be served by the ISAC can opt in building their own information sharing group.

"One of the things that people forget or don't think about is that verticals have private associations of security leaders that don't get advertised to the outside world," he says. "Often a lot of good threat information gets exchanged in these groups."