Chapter 2: Requirements and Intelligence Team Implementation

The most critical parts of intelligence integration's first step (planning and direction) is the requirements and positioning of a competent, diverse, and multi-skilled team to perform different project functions. To minimize security risks, the CTI project team must focus on what the organization's needs are and prioritize them accordingly. An organization's security needs fundamentally involve protecting sensitive information (personal information), intellectual properties, assets, and any other information that, if released, would result in financial losses and brand reputation damage. Collecting and generating information must be tackled on all levels: strategic (strategic security requirements), operational (operational security requirements), and tactical (tactical security requirements).

This chapter focuses on the task mentioned previously – generating the requirements and building a CTI...