Cyber Threat Intelligence Description

Cyber threat intelligence helps organizations understand their threat landscape. Threat intelligence involves collecting, evaluating, analyzing, and reporting on threats to an organization. Like competitive intelligence that organizations collect on other firms in their industry, cyber security professionals have an ethical obligation to ensure that their leaders are briefed on threats and included in the decision-making process of how to respond to these threats. Organizations must be aware of the threats they face if they are to be successful and keep their information safe.

The paper below is a briefing to the leadership of a fictional organization that outlines the threats it faces and some tactics to combat those threats.

Cyber_Threat_Intelligence_Rick_Guetschow.docx.pdf

Reflections

I thoroughly enjoyed this course and added to my cyber security toolbelt several tactics and processes for obtaining and reporting on threat intelligence. As cyber security professionals, we are ethically bound to provide all information to organizations that we can gather. Cyber threat intelligence is not a lone enterprise, organizations must be willing to share any information they gather with those around them.

Gathering information from multiple sources can help to ensure that the information is accurate and the threat is real. One of the hardest tasks in cyber threat intelligence is separating the wheat from the chaff. There are vast amounts of threat information available, and determining what is a threat to my organization takes specialization and cooperation between entities.