Cyber Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence is data that is collected, processed, and analyzed to understand a threat actor’s motives, targets, and attack behaviors. Threat intelligence enables us to make faster, more informed, data-backed security decisions and change their behavior from reactive to proactive in the fight against threat actors.
Companies that stick to this basic level of threat intelligence are missing out on real advantages that could significantly strengthen their security postures.
Threat intelligence is important for the following reasons:
- sheds light on the unknown, enabling security teams to make better decisions
- empowers cyber security stakeholders by revealing adversarial motives and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
- helps security professionals better understand the threat actor’s decision-making process
- empowers business stakeholders, such as executive boards, CISOs, CIOs and CTOs; to invest wisely, mitigate risk, become more efficient and make faster decisions
