A well done and mostly non-technical look at the idea of Threat Intelligence, that defines the term, who can benefit, the cycle describing how it's produced via planning and direction through processing and analysis:
Today, the cybersecurity industry faces numerous challenges — increasingly persistent and devious threat actors, a daily flood of data full of extraneous information and false alarms across multiple, unconnected security systems, and a serious shortage of skilled professionals. Additionally, the attack surfaces organizations have to understand and protect are bigger now than ever before. Threats aren't coming from one angle, organizations need to understand business risk from cyber attacks, physical security and operational disruptions, attacks on their reputation, and more.
Some organizations try to incorporate threat data feeds into their network, but don't know what to do with all that extra data, adding to the burden of analysts who may not have the tools to decide what to prioritize and what to ignore.
The article goes over the three types (strategic, tactical and operational), how AI can improve data collection and aggregation, and points out it applies to a wide variety of business applications, from fraud prevention to vulnerability management. If one reads between the lines it can be ascertained the concepts also apply to governments, for example, in monitoring and detecting the moment nuclear weapons have been deployed. Originally spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16, @10:45PM
Well what do you expect? If you have a skill, you will get worked into the ground until you figure out the game is to get other bastards to do the work for you. Your job is to win the contract and hand off the labor to others. So now (at least in sciences) is departments full of the types of people who excel at winning contracts. All looking for that elusive "skilled professional" willing to die for the cause for $56k on a short term contract.
(Score: -1, Spam) by billbellum on Saturday December 17, @06:09AM (1 child)
janrinok is our "skilled professional". Just listen to him. He exudes professionalism, as only retired British Military can. He knows more than we do. And he is more skilled at interpreting it. So good to have such a professional on the staff of SoylentNews! Love you, janrinok!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18, @01:51AM
Though I wouldn't know whether he knows more than the rest of us, and you are a bit unclear as to what he is more skilled at interpreting, but after I remove your sarcasm I would agree with your last two sentences. We're damn lucky to have him around and I'd be proud to call him a mate and to share with him a beverage of his choosing.