Boost Cybersecurity Efforts with Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence

How much data does your organization collect about your threat landscape every single day? It’s great to collect it all, but do you actually use all of it? Or is the sheer mass so overwhelming that you aren’t sure which threats are real?

39% of companies report handling, at minimum, 1,000 security alerts every day. Given the quantities, managing all the threat data and making use of it may seem like Mission Impossible. However, it’s a bottleneck you can’t afford— the importance of deriving valuable insights and guidance about your threat landscape are critical.

Thankfully, there is a solution that can help you make informed decisions on which threats to prioritize and what to do about them. It’s called actionable cyber threat intelligence. 

 

When Data Becomes Intelligence

With so much threat data generated every day, analysts have a difficult job. They have to monitor threat data to identify potential attacks continuously, and then analyze it to prioritize and remediate threats. 

Raw data, especially too much of it, is useless. Without context, it’s just random facts that require correlation and human analysis to turn data into information. 

But it is still not enough. Information needs to be analyzed and given a purpose. Only then can it become actionable intelligence— where critical questions are asked, significant conclusions drawn, and decisions made. 

 

Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence: A Smart Solution for Your Cybersecurity Policy

Most organizations cannot process all the raw threat data they gather. Although analysts often spend most of their time monitoring threat feeds, research by Ponemon Institute states that, on average, 31% of security alerts go uninvestigated due to volume.

Because IT departments can only staff so many analysts and are limited by the manual effort required for analysis, uninvestigated threat data is all too common. It’s no wonder 82% of organizations say improving their threat detection and response is one of the most critical priorities. Cybersecurity threat intelligence is no longer a “nice-to-have” part of your security plan.  

Comprehensive, actionable threat intelligence significantly reduces the cybercriminals’ advantage of knowing that most organizations skip a large portion of their threat attempts. Eliminating this gap has a dramatic and immediate impact on optimizing your security posture. It makes the analysts’ work easier and lets them concentrate on remediation. More than just an improved threat identification process, actionable intelligence helps mitigate risks and prevent breaches.

 

Why Leverage Actionable Threat Intelligence?

Given the volume of threats faced daily, actionable threat intelligence is critical for every organization to implement.
Here are some of actionable cyber threat intelligence’s main benefits: 

  • Actionable threat intelligence provides more information about attacks, enabling IT departments to act quickly to prevent them.
  • It dramatically reduces the time and resources required to gather, analyze, and contextualize the raw data behind threats.
  • Actionable threat intelligence works with all existing cybersecurity tools and platforms. 

Threat Intelligence and The MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Actionable threat intelligence significantly improves your ability to handle the myriad techniques and sub-techniques of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Considering the sophistication and number of these, it’s clear that you need every advantage at your disposal to prevent threats. 

Cybraics uses the MITRE ATT&CK framework as a key component in designing our actionable threat intelligence tools to boost your cybersecurity efforts.

 

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