Chapter 4: Cyber Threat Intelligence Tradecraft and Standards
Like any other program, cyber threat intelligence (CTI) requires methods and skills to help security analysts achieve their desired objectives. To ensure a cooperative response to cyber threats, the cybersecurity community develops techniques (tradecraft) and standards that organizations can follow to allow a degree of uniformity in the CTI process. CTI tradecraft provides the methods and skills to conduct intelligence assessment, and standards provide a common approach (known as a norm) to react to threats. This chapter uses the two terms to refer to a common CTI language.
This chapter looks at CTI's analytic tradecraft and popular standards that help create a service-level model to ensure that the CTI program follows the right procedures (that is, the program matches the standards before being delivered to consumers).
At the end of this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Understand and...