A Quick Look At Cyber Threat Intelligence

For today’s businesses and organizations, it is no longer enough to deal with cyberattacks once confronted by them, or act once damage has already been done. As a preemptive move, companies allocate time and resources to protective strategies such as cyber threat intelligence (CTI), is which organizing, analyzing, and refining information about potential or ongoing cyberattacks that threaten them.

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CTI is mainly intended to help companies and organizations know and understand the risks of common and severe threats from the outside, ranging from zero-day threats to advanced persistent threats or APTs. It involves detailed information about certain threats to help protect them from the most extensively damaging attacks that could occur in the future.

CTI can provide different benefits to different people in the organization. For directors and executives, it can help improve situational awareness and offer scalable, repeatable processes and platforms to leverage their security strategy. It will also help Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to educate senior leadership on current and emerging risks, as well as the most effective ways to manage them.

This isn’t an end-to-end process, but instead a circular process known as the intelligence cycle. In the cycle, requirements are stated, data collection is implemented and evaluated, and the results are analyzed to produce intelligence reports. The resulting intelligence is disseminated and revisited regularly to consider new information and user/consumer feedback.

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The desired output is greater insight into cyber threats, making room for faster, more targeted responses to them as well as proper development and allocation of IT and other resources.

Richard Blech is the CEO of Secure Channels, a company that offers customized data security solutions without compromising the level of protection provided while avoiding additional maintenance and support efforts. For similar reads, click here.