Today's typical approach to threat intelligence isn't putting organizations in a place to do that.
Instead, many threat intelligence tools are delivering too much uncurated and irrelevant information that arrives too late to act upon.
Organizations today need better intelligence, better tools, and a better approach to threat hunting that can put them on the offense and in a position to proactively protect their organization.
Here's why it's time to reimagine threat intelligence.
Today's standard approach to threat intelligence may provide you a lot of information, yet you may still feel that your ability to proactively protect against threats is still lacking.
Here are some of the ways in which today's approach to threat intelligence is leaving your vulnerable and resource constrained.
Data Overload: Today, threat hunters have access to data about numerous threats around the world.
Outdated Data: A quick reaction time is of the essence if threat hunters want to protect their environments.
Irrelevant Threats: In addition to the volume of threats, threat hunting teams are inundated with data that isn't relevant, like threat actors working in other parts of the world or targeting other industries.
Running large, uncurated data sets through your security tools will impact their performance and slow down threat response.
Addressing each false positives - which can take an average of 32 minutes to investigate - takes valuable time away from threat hunting or other security tasks, delaying the protection needed.
Ultimately, a bloated threat intelligence feed doesn't lead to better security.
You may have information on every threat actor out there at your fingertips, yet still be unable to protect your organization because you didn't have actionable, contextually relevant intelligence from streamlined feeds.
Better intelligence can enhance your visibility into threat actor behavior, getting that intelligence in real time allows you to act on it quickly, and having agile tools allows threat hunters to visualize and take action upon that data.
These factors will enable you to evolve your threat hunting to threat reconnaissance.
Today, an ideal posture is taking a proactive approach to threat hunting, which involves hunting out threats that may be in your system.
Attacks can also impact people's lives and well-being, like we're seeing with the rise in threat actors targeting hospital systems.
Organizations have seen savings of $1.7 million over three years by improving their approach to threat intelligence.
He has led initiatives to standardize and bolster the security of the firm's threat intelligence infrastructure.
With over two decades of experience across diverse technologies, David offers a rich repository of knowledge spanning threat analysis, system fortification, network defense, incident response, and policy.
This Cyber News was published on www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Publication date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:13:06 +0000