In my last CSO article, I looked at a few challenges related to enterprise threat intelligence programs. Security pros pointed to issues like dealing with too many manual processes, sorting through noisy threat intelligence feeds, establishing clear ROI benefits, and managing threat intelligence programs that are little more than an academic exercise for the cyber-threat intelligence (CTI) team.
6 phases of an effective threat intelligence program
Given these pervasive challenges, it’s logical to ask: What does a strong threat intelligence program look like? While different organizations may answer this question with their own unique perspective, one common trait is that successful CTI programs follow an established threat intelligence lifecycle across six phases. (Note: Some threat intelligence lifecycle models are composed of five phases as they combine items 5 and 6 below):
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