Improve Your Threat Intelligence Strategy With These Ideas
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The document outlines strategies for effective threat intelligence to reduce operational risks and improve business operations, emphasizing the importance of focused intelligence efforts on specific objectives. It discusses the necessity of both passive and active intelligence methods, the choice between building or buying threat intelligence platforms, and the need for clear communication of intelligence to organizational leaders. Ultimately, the goal is to ensure that threat intelligence enhances profitability while addressing both macro and micro threats.
Improve Your Threat Intelligence Strategy With These Ideas
- 1. 1 Threat Intelligence Strategy With These Ideas Improve Your
- 2. 2 Introduction Collecting, disseminating, and using threat intelligence reduces operational risk in order to maintain and improve business operations. As opposed to producing a comprehensive range of intelligence, it’s more effective to concentrate intelligence efforts on specific business objectives.
- 3. 3 ▪ Signals intelligence, open source intelligence, and human intelligence are three primary means of gathering cyber threat intelligence. ▪ Human intelligence is the most active of the three, and active intelligence can shed light on specific threats that may cause massive damage. ▪ The ideal situation is to utilize both passive and active intelligence. 1. Beyond Passive Intelligence
- 4. 4 ▪ While freely available in large quantities, it would be a mistake to rely solely on open source intelligence. ▪ Investing time and resources in the analysis of an organization’s own incoming traffic (signals intelligence) will reveal anomalies that relate specifically to them. ▪ By investing in a quality threat intelligence product, one can gain access to a broad array of usable human intelligence sources. 1. Beyond Passive Intelligence
- 5. 5 ▪ At times an organization’s platform must be rebuilt from the ground up, or it needs to be replaced with a vendor-built alternative. ▪ When it comes to a threat intelligence platform, two questions must be asked: ○ Is the organization so different that existing vendor-built platforms won’t suffice? ○ Will a homegrown platform survive the constantly evolving threat landscape? 2. Building vs. Buying
- 6. 6 ▪ The threat landscape is continuously evolving, and vendors focused specifically in this area are constantly developing and refining their platforms. ▪ If an organization is in the position to do so, building and maintaining a comprehensive threat intelligence capability is a significant advantage. 2. Building vs. Buying
- 7. 7 ▪ Most breaches result from lost passwords, careless online activity, and petty theft. ▪ Threat intelligence must identify both macro and micro threat trends to be useful and minimize the risk of suffering a serious breach. ▪ A single breach can cause massive long-term damage to even the largest organizations. 3. Getting Context
- 8. 8 ▪ By understanding macro threat trends, it’s much easier to spot and respond to anomalous threats within a smaller time period. ▪ Macro threat trend analysis provides the context for micro threat trend analysis. 3. Getting Context
- 9. 9 ▪ A threat intelligence strategy must help the organization stay profitable. ▪ Red teams, security operations centers, incident response, and vulnerability management are all areas that can benefit from high-quality threat intelligence. 4. Communication of Intelligence
- 10. 10 ▪ Being involved early can inform organizations on which specific aspects of threat intelligence will help them to do their jobs, which in turn helps the organization stay profitable. ▪ It’s worth the time to investigate the way intelligence is disseminated within an organization. 4. Communication of Intelligence
- 11. 11 ▪ Some cyber specialists lack the ability to translate cyber threats into language that leaders can understand and act upon. ▪ Rectifying this is simple, as long as C-suite members are willing to listen and engage. 5. Breach the Knowledge Gap
- 12. 12 ▪ C-suite members need information they can act upon, take to the shareholders, or use to allocate budgets. ▪ If cyber specialists are not getting the support needed, they must proactively help executives understand what they can do to help. 5. Breach the Knowledge Gap
- 13. 13 Takeaway With threat intelligence there’s always something to test and more logs to check, so it’s only as complicated as one wants it to be. There’s one question that should always be asked: Will this help the organization stay profitable?
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