Don’t Wait! Leverage Threat Intelligence

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Why Threat Intelligence Matters

Cyber Fusion Has a Role to Play

Conclusion

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Don’t Wait! Leverage Threat Intelligence

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Posted on: July 19, 2021

Don’t Wait! Leverage Threat Intelligence
If your incident response team struggles to detect serious threats and does not have answers to the who, what, when, why, and how of attacks, it’s time to leverage threat intelligence to accelerate response and remediation. Implementing a threat intelligence program will allow you to uncover evidence of threats lurking on your network.

Why Threat Intelligence Matters

Security teams can collect and share human-readable alerts from internal as well as external sources by leveraging a threat intelligence platform (TIP). These alerts can be shared with security teams as early warning notifications concerning any threat. An advanced feature of threat intelligence solutions can allow you to deliver real-time alerts to your employees or other stakeholders via the web, email, or mobile, equipping them with continuous and reliable situational awareness. Thus, threat intelligence can be employed in a wide range of ways. The potential use cases mentioned below make threat intelligence implementation a must for modern-day organizations. 

Security Operations Center

If your security operations center (SOC) team struggles with their day-to-day operational tasks and threat response activities, then it’s time for you to leverage threat intelligence. By using threat intelligence and automating the threat intelligence lifecycle, SOC teams can monitor, alert, and block threats. They can use a threat intelligence feed to block suspicious activities at firewalls or other cybersecurity tools. This can help SOC teams eliminate false positives, expedite triage, and minimize the time spent on containment and analysis.

Incident Response

Incident responders are overwhelmed with massive volumes of alerts. Threat intelligence can aid incident response teams in evaluating alerts by enriching alerts, minimizing false positives, and helping them in the investigation of an ongoing intrusion. Moreover, by implementing threat intelligence, you can easily manage the prioritization and triage of any ongoing investigation. 

Vulnerability Management

Threat intelligence enables security teams to stay updated on the latest vulnerabilities and take necessary risk mitigation steps. Once your vulnerability management tool notifies you of a potential flaw, your security teams can leverage the threat intelligence collected from different security tools to quickly respond to that vulnerability. Threat intelligence lets you query your vulnerability management tool for further discoveries, allowing you to determine the priority and risk level of the vulnerability. However, all of this is only possible if you implement threat intelligence. 

Brand Monitoring

Your organization’s brand might be attacked on social media channels. Cyberattacks such as phishing, domain frauds, false flag schemes, and trolling attacks can be identified through brand monitoring. Identifying threats on social media platforms requires awareness of an organization’s brand and the ways an attacker may exploit it. Threat intelligence can help you with brand monitoring. Advanced threat intelligence solutions focusing on brand monitoring can search for malicious or fake social media accounts, identify malign links posted on your social media account, and analyze the loss of your intellectual property. 

Cyber Fusion Has a Role to Play

Cyber fusion is a unique approach that encourages collaboration across security teams for threat detection and response. A key feature of cyber fusion is its ability to promote a continuous flow of enriched, analyzed, and actionable threat intelligence to support intel-driven security operations. This next-generation technology makes threat intelligence actionable by connecting the dots between vulnerabilities, incidents, malware, threat actors, and assets, enabling security teams to gain contextual intelligence on complex threat campaigns, find cybercriminals’ trajectories, and discover latent threat patterns. 

Integrated with cyber fusion technology, an advanced TIP allows security teams to collect, enrich, and share machine-generated alerts with security teams in a collaborative manner. This helps them obtain real-time situational awareness, make informed decisions, and take required actions. These alerts can be fully customized to users in specific roles, locations, organizations, and business units in case of a looming or ongoing crisis. Such a crisis notification feature breaks down the silos among teams, establishes an uninterrupted channel of communication during an emergency or a crisis, and provides a dynamic response mechanism to address unpredictable situations.
 

Conclusion

Over time, your SOC teams will be overburdened by alerts, vulnerability management teams will have more weaknesses to tackle, and security leaders will be pushed to make important decisions. Your problems will only increase. To cope up with all these challenges, you need threat intelligence that provides real-time insights and relevant context that can help you simplify your workload and make better decisions. Irrespective of how mature or evolved your security function is, leveraging threat intelligence at this moment will let you address new threats as they arise.

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