Summary
In this chapter, we learned how useful strategic threat intelligence is for a non-technical audience and how it gives everyone the why. Operational threat intelligence is useful for a technical audience and tells the analyst what to hunt for. Intelligence and intelligence analysts can provide answers to RFIs, data enrichment, and deliverables requested by an organization. These analysts and the information they provide are a must-have resource on any threat hunt – always include them as a critical component of the team.
The diamond model can provide much-needed visualization and the capability of pivoting off of single datasets. Train intel and hunt analysts on the partnership and how to communicate, as well as pivoting off of the data each provides to the other.
Intelligence feeds can be a great addition to the automation of data analysis as well as the correlation of information. Be mindful and selective of threat feeds to minimize noise that intel and hunt analysts...
