Four Common Threat Intelligence Challenges And How To Overcome Them
Forbes – Brent McCarty
Brent McCarty of ESET outlines the significance of threat intelligence and its role in proactively addressing cyber threats.
Threat intelligence involves aggregating and enriching security event data to create a definitive profile of cyberattacks, malware campaigns, and hacker tools.
It provides insights to identify threat signatures and implement controls to counter them.
He also highlights the challenges faced in maximizing the benefits of threat intelligence:
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Overwhelming Volumes of Data: The growing intensity and diversity of cyber threats lead to security teams processing an increasing amount of data.
To address this, organizations need to curate data and focus on actionable insights relevant to their specific needs.
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Inability to Interpret the Data: Interpreting security data sources for generating threat intelligence requires expertise and understanding of the context of the threat, including historical data and relationships among data objects.
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Too Few Sources: Data from a range of sources is necessary to comprehensively identify and mitigate threats, including commercial intelligence services, open-source intelligence, and government threat intelligence agencies.
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Poor Operationalization: Efficient operationalization of threat intelligence processes involves centralizing threat intelligence feeds and generating runbooks that directly relate indicators of compromise (IoCs) to blocking rules or configuration settings.
Maximizing the value of curated threat intelligence enables security teams to proactively deliver targeted security guidance, prioritize emerging business risks, and bolster incident response to mitigate potential attacks.
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2023/12/05/four-common-threat-intelligence-challenges-and-how-to-overcome-them/