What Is Threat Intelligence, and Why is it Important?
fliptop writes:
A well done and mostly non-technical look at the idea of Threat Intelligence, that defines the term, who can benefit, the cycle describing how it's produced via planning and direction through processing and analysis:
Today, the cybersecurity industry faces numerous challenges - increasingly persistent and devious threat actors, a daily flood of data full of extraneous information and false alarms across multiple, unconnected security systems, and a serious shortage of skilled professionals. Additionally, the attack surfaces organizations have to understand and protect are bigger now than ever before. Threats aren't coming from one angle, organizations need to understand business risk from cyber attacks, physical security and operational disruptions, attacks on their reputation, and more.
Some organizations try to incorporate threat data feeds into their network, but don't know what to do with all that extra data, adding to the burden of analysts who may not have the tools to decide what to prioritize and what to ignore.
The article goes over the three types (strategic, tactical and operational), how AI can improve data collection and aggregation, and points out it applies to a wide variety of business applications, from fraud prevention to vulnerability management. If one reads between the lines it can be ascertained the concepts also apply to governments, for example, in monitoring and detecting the moment nuclear weapons have been deployed. Originally spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.
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