Q: What is Cyber Threat Intelligence?
According to Gartner, “threat intelligence is evidence-based knowledge, including context, mechanism, indicators, implications, and actionable advice, about an existing or emerging menace or hazard to assets that can be used to inform decisions regarding the subject’s response to that menace or hazard”.
EC Council’s definition is very similar, “threat intelligence is the analysis of data using tools and techniques to generate meaningful information about existing or emerging threats targeting the organization that helps mitigate risks”.
Q: What is the purpose of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)?
Cyber threat intelligence aims to help institutions and organizations understand the risks of cyber attacks or cyber threats. These attacks can range from zero-day attacks, crypto viruses, APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), botnets, or exploits. These threats are reported with the intelligence activities after being reviewed by CTI analysts to provide special protection methods to assist in an active defense in your organization.
Q: Why do you need Cyber Threat Intelligence?
The skilled, well-funded, well-organized, and highly-sophisticated cyber attackers use techniques that reveal security strategies to the technology alone. To develop a defense strategy against attackers, organizations need to know how hackers operate, how they function, and what techniques they use.
Cyber-threat intelligence allows companies to identify the dynamics and consequences of risks, improve security plans and structures, and reduce their attack potential to minimize damage and defend their network.
Q: Why is Cyber Threat Intelligence so important?
CTI can identify and analyze cyber threats against your business. Therefore, CTI can help you to:
Focus on actionable alarms; the legacy threat intelligence solution provided only feeds and (Indicator of Compromise) IOCs, which were not actionable. But organizations started to need more and more of the latest intelligence about them. With real-time intelligence on threat actors, botnets, malware, and data from the dark web and the deep internet, organizations need to detect phishing domains targeting their customers.
Collect, Verify, and Prioritize External Threats; CTI can deliver the hard work for your business with enriched intelligence that allows you to apply smarter defense and improvement processes.
Detect Forgotten Assets and Monitor Attack Surface in Real Time; CTI can determine blind spots by following the changing attack surface constantly.
Prevent Data Loss; by using CTI, cyber threats can be detected, and security breaches can be prevented from disclosing confidential info
Q: What are the types of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)?
Various threatening knowledge and theoretical approaches are useful at various businesses’ levels. The four categories of cyber threat intelligence have to do with different objectives:
Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence; It utilizes comprehensive pattern and emerging risk analysis to provide an outline of future cyber-attack implications.
Operational Cyber Threat Intelligence; It is mainly used to make resource management decisions regarding actual and potential risks, historical resources, affiliations, and motives of threat actors.
Tactical Cyber Threat Intelligence; Primarily, its main target is a technically trained audience and allows them to learn more specific details on threat actors’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
Technical Cyber Threat Intelligence; It focuses on the technological details suggesting a cyber-security threat, such as phishing email lines or malicious URLs.
Q: What are the differences between Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and Cyber Intelligence (CI)?
Usually, cyber threat intelligence and cyber intelligence terms have the same meaning. However, in theory, the two terms have different contexts.
CTI is the collection and revelation of threats that may harm business elements and security at any level of institutions and organizations. It is a type of intelligence that enables early measures to be taken by detecting the attackers' goals, methods, or types of attacks by analyzing the data collected and enriched from electronic media through a process.
CTI provides information on malicious actors, their tools, their infrastructure, and their methods for;
Identifying types of attacks,
Defining, guiding, and prioritizing operational requirements,
Understanding threat actor capability, tactics, techniques, and procedures,
Deploying detection systems,
Developing defense strategies.
Cyber intelligence (CI) translates the data obtained from the attackers’ networks into an operative report through “standard intelligence approaches.
Q: What is Brand Protection (BP)?
Brand Protection is a cybersecurity strategy that focuses on identifying, monitoring, and mitigating digital risks that can impact an organization’s information security and business operations. These risks can include data breaches, phishing threats, brand impersonation, data leakage, exposed credentials, cyber fraud, and many more.
BP involves the use of various tools and technologies to constantly scan the digital landscape — the web, social media platforms, deep and dark web, mobile apps, and other digital channels — for potential risks to an organization’s digital assets.
Q: Why is Brand Protection (BP) important for businesses?
As businesses continue to expand their digital footprint, they expose themselves to increased risk. BP helps businesses proactively identify and manage these risks, protect their reputation, maintain customer trust, and avoid potential regulatory fines.
Q: What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?
The attack surface is the point or vector through which an attacker enters the environment and is merely a list of all possible ways in which the attacker can enter a device or network and extract data. In other words, the attack interfaces can be described as a collection of different points where unauthorized users could infiltrate an IT environment. There are a number of points from which attackers could attempt to penetrate the environment, such as access to the network, access from a remote location, or access via a network connection.
The attack surface can be categorized into 4 groups. All attack surfaces can be at least one of these 4 groups.
Attack surface refers to any asset such as domain infrastructure, website services, cloud technologies, etc. that is open to the Internet and can be exploited by the attacker. It can be described as the network interface of an organization, its network infrastructure, and resources.
Q: Why is External Attack Surface Management (EASM) so important?
Good attack surface management products monitor all systems around the clock for newly discovered new security vulnerabilities. Real-time visibility is critical to detecting the impact of an attack on the attack surface of a range of networks, software, protocols, and services that run online in an enterprise. Given the number and complexity of network and software protocols and services in an online business, it can be difficult to identify which parts of your attacks are the source of breaches and intrusions. Identifying injury risks, which is dynamic and highly complex, is characterized by several complex areas to be explored, such as network infrastructure, network security, data security, and network management.
Q: What other applications or services does SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence integrate with?
SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence integrates with: OpenText Content Management (Extended ECM), Cortex XSOAR, Elasticsearch, CrowdStrike Falcon, IBM Cloud, Rapid7 Incident Command, Jira Service Management, Trellix Data Encryption, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Splunk Cloud Platform, and IBM SPSS Statistics.
