As businesses around the world become more global, the volume and complexity of attacks continue to grow. Protecting a company in today’s environment has become more difficult. For example, securing an organization with offices in London, Hong Kong and Santa Cruz represents a challenge of both scale and complexity for security analysts. In addition, the number of companies affected by data breaches, destructive malware and ransomware is growing at a rapid pace.
High-quality threat intelligence can offer immediate network protection, provide visibility to known threats and significantly reduce the time required for situational investigation or incident response.
Security analysts, whether performing incident response or general threat research, need automated tools with intelligent rules to help find, organize and filter the most relevant information for their primary task. Within the security operations center (SOC), analysts and incident response engineers use threat intelligence to quickly isolate the signal from the noise, identify real problems and their fixes, and prioritize remediation efforts.
Speed is imperative. More specifically, time to decision is everything.
Challenges Facing Security Analysts
In order to shorten their time to decision, security analysts need to quickly answer key questions, such as:
Do I understand the situation?
Is the threat real?
What is its potential impact on my organization?
How do I prioritize it against my backlog?
What evidence do I have to support my position?
What do I do next?
Threat intelligence can help answer those questions. It can provide context to the situation being investigated. Indicator-based threat intelligence can corroborate internal sightings, and vulnerability-based threat intelligence can help illuminate potential exposures and consequences for the organization.
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