Chapter 6: Technical Threat Intelligence – Collection

Intelligence collection is a term that is thrown around quite a lot across the cyber threat intelligence (CTI) industry, but unfortunately, it is not widely discussed or even analyzed as a discipline in the private sector. While governments and militaries may have invested a significant amount into mastering the discipline for nation-state activities or as part of military operations, there is still a large barrier to entry for individuals who wish to engage in this line of work in the private sector. Collection is a discipline that is often not invested in correctly by private sector organizations. Most private sector programs that have a concerted collection effort have usually been started by individuals who have had formal training from active military service or employment in a government agency. They have taken their insight into intelligence collection and provided the knowledge learned from their previous experience...