Cyber Threat Intelligence

Democratizing Threat Intelligence With Our New Handbook by Chris Pace

Just as with any book, during the process of writing “The Threat Intelligence Handbook,” we had to make a decision about who it was going to be for. In thinking about the kind of people who could gain the most from a book introducing threat intelligence, we came to understand that it really was for anyone working in security.

This idea that threat intelligence doesn’t need to be the preserve of specialized analysts and dedicated teams is one that we’ve been hearing from our customers for some time. But there is a quite distinct difference between the analysis and production of threat intelligence and its application for better security.

That’s why we want to democratize the use of threat intelligence. A healthy democracy requires the universal participation of well-educated and passionate citizens; in the same way, security teams of all stripes not only will benefit from, but have something to contribute to, the development and sharing of threat intelligence. Just as poor education and low participation in civil society leads to power becoming agglomerated into the hands of a few, keeping threat intelligence confined to the hands of a cabal of experts means that many people in an organization who would benefit from it are cut off from that key bit of knowledge. Click on this link to read more