Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software, which securely shares cyber threat and/or reputation information among computing devices, systems, or programs that are not under common control or administration but are otherwise affiliated for implementation of common or similar usage policies with respect to cyber-observable data objects, for securing networks and associated computer devices, namely, for preventing unauthorized access to, disruption of, and use of computer networks and associated computing devices, for virus, phishing, and malware prevention, for blocking, monitoring, and filtering unsolicited email, for blocking, monitoring, and filtering unauthorized or undesirable network content, communications, and data, for enforcing network use, content, traffic, communication, and access, and for establishing virtual private networks