What Is Threat Management? Common Challenges and Best Practices

What Is Threat Management? Common Challenges and Best Practices

Threat management, or cyber threat management, is a framework often used by cybersecurity professionals to manage the life cycle of a threat in an effort to identify and respond to it with speed and accuracy. The foundation of threat management is a seamless integration between people, process and technology to stay ahead of threats.


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Why Is Threat Management Important?


According to the 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report, organizations can save on average $1.2 million when breaches are detected sooner. With the constant increase in the number of threats and the complexity of the attacks, organizations are struggling to keep up. Threat management is important to organizations now more than ever as it increases the collaboration between people, process and technology, giving organizations the best chance to detect threats sooner and respond more quickly.


Organizations that successfully adopt and implement the threat management framework often benefit from:


Lower risk with faster threat detection, consistent investigations and faster response
Continuous improvement through built-in process measurement and reporting
Increased security team skills, effectiveness and morale

3 Common Threat Management Challenges


Why is it so hard to protect against advanced persistent threats and insider threats? When we speak to security leaders across the industry, three common challenges always come up:


1. Lack of Visibility


Security teams do not have complete visibility of their entire threat landscape with relevant context, including internal (HR, users, databases, cloud) and external data (social media, OSINT, threat intel, dark web, etc.) sources. This is often caused by the silos that exist between security ..

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