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CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE: GETTING ON THE FRONT FOOT AGAINST ADVERSARIES

By collecting, analyzing and contextualizing information about possible
cyberthreats, including the most advanced ones, threat intelligence offers a
critical method to identify, assess and mitigate cyber risk

Phil Muncaster

10 Nov 2023  •  , 4 min. read



When it comes to mitigating an organization’s cyber risk, knowledge and
expertise are power. That alone should make cyber threat intelligence (TI) a key
priority for any organization. Unfortunately, this often isn’t the case. Among
the various protective measures that IT leaders must consider to help them
counter increasingly sophisticated attacks, threat intelligence is often
overlooked. This oversight could be a critical mistake, however.

By collecting, analyzing and contextualizing information about possible
cyberthreats, including the most advanced ones, threat intelligence offers a
critical method to identify, assess and mitigate cyber risk. When done right, it
can also help your organization to prioritize where to focus its limited
resources for maximum effect and so reduce their exposure to threats, minimize
damage from potential attacks, and build resilience against future threats.


WHAT ARE THE MAIN TYPES OF TI?

The challenge for your organization is picking through what is a crowded market
of TI vendors to find the right offering. This is, after all, a market predicted
to be worth in excess of $44 billion by 2033. There are broadly four types of
TI:

 * Strategic: Delivered to senior leadership via white papers and reports, this
   offers contextual analysis of broad trends to inform the reader.
 * Tactical: Aligned with the needs of more hands-on security operations
   (SecOps) team members, this outlines actor tactics, techniques, and
   procedures (TTPs) to provide visibility into the attack surface and how
   malicious actors can compromise the environment.
 * Technical: Helps SecOps analysts monitor for new threats or investigate
   existing ones using indicators of compromise (IOCs).
 * Operational: Also uses IOCs, but this time to track adversary movements and
   understand the techniques being used during an attack.

While strategic and tactical TI focus on longer term goals, the latter two
categories are concerned with uncovering the “what?” of attacks in the short
term.

 




WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A THREAT INTEL SOLUTION

There are various ways that organizations can consume threat intelligence,
including industry feeds, open source intelligence (OSINT), peer-to-peer sharing
within verticals, and direct from vendors. It goes without saying that there are
a number of the latter offering their expertise in this area. In fact, Forrester
recorded a 49% increase in paid commercial threat intelligence feeds from 2021
to 2022.

However, you’re best advised to focus on the following when assessing whether a
vendor is the right fit for your organization:

 * Completeness: They should offer a comprehensive range of TI covering a wide
   range of threat actors, threat vectors, and data sources – including internal
   telemetry, OSINT and external feeds. IOC feeds should be thought of as part
   of a holistic TI service rather than a standalone.
 * Accuracy: Inaccurate intelligence can overwhelm analysts with noise. Vendors
   must deliver precision.
 * Relevance: Feeds should be tailored to your specific environment, industry
   and company size, as well as what is most relevant (tactical/strategic) to
   your organization over the short and longer terms. Also consider who is going
   to use the service. TI is expanding to new personas all the time; even
   marketing, compliance and legal teams.
 * Timeliness: Threats move quickly so any feed must be updated in real time to
   be useful.
 * Scalability: Any vendor should be able to meet the TI needs of your
   organization as it grows.
 * Reputation: It always pays to go with a vendor that can boast a track record
   of TI success. Increasingly, this may be a vendor not traditionally
   associated with TI, but rather SOAR, XDR or similar adjacent areas.
 * Integration: Consider solutions which fit neatly into your existing security
   infrastructure, including SIEM and SOAR platforms.


NAVIGATING THE TI MARKET

The TI market is constantly evolving, with new categories emerging to help
evaluate new threats.  That can make choosing the right option(s) a challenge.
It pays to think longer term about your requirements to avoid constant
reassessment of strategy, although this must be balanced by the need for
relevance and agility.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that the maturity of your organization will play
a big part in how many and what type of TI services to adopt. Those with
dedicated teams and resource may consume as many as 15 sources of TI across
commercial, OSINT, and free offerings.

Today’s threat actors are well resourced, dynamic, determined and can leverage
the element of surprise. TI is one of the best ways organizations can level the
playing field and gain the upper hand, including by understanding their
adversary, assessing the threat landscape and making better informed decisions.
That’s the way not only to stop attacks in their tracks before they can make an
impact on the organization, but also to build resilience for the future.

Each organization will need to choose the blend of TI right for them. But when
looking at vendors, ensure the data is at least complete, accurate, relevant and
timely. Curated feeds will go a long way to saving time and resource for your
own team. The key is to find a vendor whose feeds you trust. According to IDC,
80% of G2000 companies will increase investment in threat intelligence by 2024.
Make sure you’re set up to succeed.

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