Cyber threat intelligence attempts to understand adversaries and their potential actions before they occur and prepare accordingly.
CTI gathers information about threat actors, their intentions, mechanisms, intended targets and means for doing so as comprehensively as possible.
The Four Pillars of Effective CTI. Fundamentally, a well-functioning security department needs two things: Timely, accurate insights about threats that are relevant to their organization, and the capacity to quickly respond to those threats.
Finally, you need the detection and prevention tools that allow you to take action in response to the relevant insights.
It's another thing to refine that data so that security teams know what is relevant and what is peripheral.
If you're shopping for a solution, be sure that the vendor has first compiled an exhaustive list of potential threats by accessing a wide range of sources, including underground forums and marketplaces and that the information is continuously updated in real time.
The vendor should further allow you to cull down the list to a manageable level, using the tool to automatically contextualize and prioritize those threats and thus respond quickly and efficiently.
Problem: Security teams sometimes find themselves working with tools that do not match their cybersecurity skills.
Another tool may be too simplistic for a security team operating at an advanced level and fail to provide sufficient information for an adequate response.
Solution: Teams need to use CTI tools that match or complement their skill sets.
You also want to select tools that match your organization's security maturity and appetite for data - neither too high nor too low for your needs.
Ideally, the tool you use incorporates generative AI geared specifically to threat intelligence data.
If your organization is particularly subject to ransomware, find one that offers the best, most up-to-date information about ransomware threats.
Problem: To adequately handle cyber threat intelligence, an organization needs to be able to consume incoming data, integrate it with other elements of its security stack, and take action rapidly.
Manually porting information from one area to another may become onerous enough that the CTI tool eventually is ignored.
Solution: In this environment, you need to rely on automated responses to threats as much as possible, so make sure whatever CTI tool you acquire integrates seamlessly with your security ecosystem.
You'll want a tool that has the APIs needed to share information readily with the rest of your security stack.
Check the vendor's compatibility list to be certain that the CTI tool will sync with the security tools most important to your organization.
Curated, contextualized threat intelligence, relevant to an organization's use cases, eliminates the paralysis that comes from too much data.
Well-integrated tools, appropriate for the security teams implementing them, give organizations the defense mechanisms required to detect and respond rapidly and efficiently.
This Cyber News was published on www.cybersecurity-insiders.com. Publication date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 02:13:05 +0000