Intelligence collection methods

There are multiple sources to gather intelligence. Some are automated but, in many cases, there will need to be an investment in time to truly research the available intelligence resources.

Intelligence feeds

There are many sources of intelligence that can be displayed in a dashboard format. We might want to see threat maps from a live feed. A good example would be showing the current activity globally for things like botnets and command and control (C2) servers. There is a good example hosted by spamhaus.com, which can be found at the following link: https://www.spamhaus.com/threat-map/. There are many good open source options and many commercial (paid for) options from security organizations such as Fortinet, FireEye, Symantec, and many others. In the United Kingdom, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) offers a free threat feed, but only to affiliated government departments.

A good example of an all-round cyber threat feed can be found...