Chapter 3: Guidelines and Policies

Cyber threat intelligence collection and enrichment guidelines and policies, often the bane of threat intelligence professionals, serve a beneficial purpose when properly understood and employed. Likewise, it is important to understand the collection and enrichment guidelines and procedures to implement at the beginning of a threat intelligence program.

As we explored in Chapter 2, Threat Actors, Campaigns, and Tooling, cyber threat intelligence is a diverse field with several intricate avenues to explore. In this chapter, we will cover policies and procedures related to threat intelligence collection and enrichment. Specifically, this chapter will focus on the need for and benefits of policies and guidelines in cyber threat intelligence. This chapter will also cover concepts related to developing intelligence requirements. A large portion of this chapter will go thoroughly through General Intelligence Requirements (GIRs), Prioritized Intelligence...