Threat intelligence comes to the rescue
Threat intelligence includes all the information we gather, study, and apply to understand the strategies, goals, and methods of those who pose digital threats. By harnessing threat intelligence, security teams can predict and obstruct cyberattacks as well as enhance the quick reactions needed during security breaches. Analysts build this intelligence, pulling from a variety of sources such as security tool data, the dark web, world events, and other organization’s breach experiences. They then draw connections to get insights into both current and potential digital dangers. For threat intelligence to be truly beneficial for a company, it needs to be custom fit to the organization, detailed, measurable, actionable, and kept up to date (Shweta, 2023). When looking at threat intelligence, several types support different aspects of a security strategy:
- Tactical intelligence: This helps security teams during an attack, searching for...
