Understand how cyber threat intelligence can leverage capabilities of network detection, response

Intelligence is now considered essential to the process of identifying, understanding and acting upon threats. According to the ‘Global Perspectives on Threat Intelligence’ study conducted by Mandiant, 96% of decision-makers interviewed for the research believe that it is important to understand which cyber threat actors could be targeting their organisation. Consequently, says Jay Allmond, threat intelligence engineer at ThreatQuotient , threat Intelligence should be fully integrated into the internal mechanisms linked to threat detection and response.

Before detailing how intelligence can be integrated into defense tools, it is necessary to talk about the nature of intelligence, the complexity of collecting it, and how to curate, qualify and act on it in the most efficient way. Intelligence effectiveness depends on the contextualisation of the elements collected in relation to a business’s specific environment. Once the qualified information is available and translated into specific formats and languages, it can then be used ...