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 A Discussion of how Important Threat Intelligence is

When carrying out cyber intelligence activities, it is not always about looking for a needle in stack of hay, it’s all about looking for the hay in a stack of needles. The improved cyber adversaries in today’s world have financial backing, the wherewithal and intelligence to carry out advanced attacks.
The attack may be too intense that the attack may not be known at all to the end users as well as the security tools your organization may have in place. Most of the advanced cyber-attacks people witness today don’t appear uncommon in any way.



The steps employed to steal a given data or breach a network or financial data might even look normal. However, understanding your adversaries and knowing about their tactics, procedures and methods is important when carry out security intelligence activities.
 Where does security intelligence come to play?
There are thousands of 24 threat intelligence sources as well as tools and can  include some kind of processed threat intelligence. However, an analyst who is well equipped and armed with information can find the most dangerous methods used by adversaries.
Discovering breaches
A good security intelligence is that which is able to identify anomalous activities or security breaches as well as help catch adversaries in the early stages. Understanding adversary methods, tactics and procedures can help pinpoint attack techniques and reconnaissance before the breach takes place.
This can save your company a lot of money in terms of loss and damage.
 Analysts need to know how such adversary is associated with the target setting. Insight into reconnaissance techniques can help your business thwart adversaries before the breach takes place as well as determining where to go from the entry point if they are responding to a breach that has already taken
 Handling attack trends
The use of security intelligence can help your company deal with current attack trends, adversary, attack vendors, and help you know why, how and when an adversary may attack a given network in your organization.
There are a number of motives for attacking a given target, and it might even be on the target company’s industry vertical.
It may also be based on date exfiltration such as customer information or intellectual property. It could also be meant to deface the company site or even steal important data for future use. The motives are more than you could ever imagine.
 Security intelligence can helping in hunting operations as well as enabling the company and its affiliates to under the risk that the business could possess at any time and stage.
 Helps in understanding adversaries
This helps the company create and pursue their campaigns, which is an important move. Analysts that carry out hunting operations need to learn how to attack the actual malware as well as other forms of attacks.
 Understanding how the adversaries find their way into the victim is a major stride for discovering attacks that would otherwise not be noticed. It is not an easy thing to find a malicious risk.








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