Dissemination and feedback
The final stage of the intelligence life cycle is where we disseminate the intelligence that we have created and seek out stakeholder feedback after consumption and review. Earlier, in the production phase of our intelligence life cycle, we created two distinct deliverables for the scenario we established for the practical application portion of the chapter. Since the original FCRs were produced by the SOC, the final report, titled Cyber Threat Intelligence – Ozark International Bank, will be distributed back to them.
The two deliverables we produced in the production phase of the intelligence life cycle are ready to be disseminated to the stakeholder community and consumed. The intelligence stakeholder in our practical example is the SOC, who specifically created an FCR for us to collect binary and network IOCs associated with threats targeting the organization.
In the second example we produced, the STIX object that represents the threat and...
