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  Before we go ahead it’s important that we first understand what is Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)? The term Threat Intelligence refers to the practice of - Collecting data Information and  The knowledge  that keeps an organization informed about potential cyber security threats.  Threat Intelligence is now a common resource for commercial organisations to use as a part of cybersecurity posture.  Why is Threat Intelligence Platform important? Threat intelligence plays a major role in maintaining an acceptable overall security posture for IT organizations. Threat Intelligence & Security Planning: IT analysts must determine how best to allocate financial and managerial resources towards effectively securing the IT infrastructure against cyber attacks. To achieve this, analysts use threat intelligence as a critical input for their security planning. Threat Intelligence and Alerts : If your IT security team has collected log data from past security events...

Open source threat intelligence is produced from publicly available information, which is then collected, analyzed, and distributed promptly to a relevant audience. But what do you mean by publicly available? If any professional skills, tools, or techniques are required to access information, it can’t fairly be considered open source.

  Respond Faster to Threats Securaa enables organizations to operationalize and aggregate threat intelligence from over 20 sources, finds the relationship between indicators and incoming alerts while providing mechanisms to respond to these threats in the most efficient manner. It operates like a workbench for the analysts to collect, manage, investigate each indicator and accordingly push actions to third party products for various use-cases. In addition, Securaa’s TIP platform also provides collaboration for analysts to share feedback into the platform for various indicators and share it with other analysts within or outside the organization as per the organization's SOP.

Earlier, the threat intelligence teams used various tools and processes to gather information and review those data from a variety of sources. They also responded to the possible security threats manually and shared threat intelligence reports with the other stakeholders. Today, threat intelligence platforms are very much needed by the company because they need to respond to the potential threats much faster than they had to earlier. A threat intelligence team benefits all types of organizations by helping to process the threat data to understand their attackers and get ahead of the attacker’s move. There are four main types of threat intelligence which include tactical, operational, technical, and strategic.

Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) is an acronym for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response. It's a technological stack that helps businesses enhance their security operations. As cyber thieves become more sophisticated, protecting a company's data and network becomes more critical. Information released from a company's files might be the source of a cyber assault. Denial-of-service attacks have the potential to bring entire systems down. Security has swiftly risen to the top of the priority list for organisations of all kinds. Large companies need to satisfy their day-to-day business demands as well as their security needs, therefore vendors that can think ahead of the curve and cater for a variety of sectors and their different compliance, laws, and standards across global locations offer the best solutions. The forthcoming Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for example, mandates breach reporting within 72 hours. Your SOAR Solutio...

With the advanced technology on a roll, there is also an increase in security threats — malware, phishing, ransomware, DDoS, and millions of other potential threats. A Threat Intelligence Platform helps organizations detect, identify, and investigate any cyber threat, malicious threat, or different kinds of threat.  It helps to predicts and controls the threat data with the help of a range of existing security tools such as an API, firewall, SIEM, API, Intrusion Prevention System, or endpoint management software. A Threat Intelligence Platform can be an on-premise system or a cloud-based function. In various SOCs (Security Operations Centers), threat intelligence is a centralized function where the team continuously monitors and offers complete online security to the organizations — detecting, preventing, analyzing, and reacting to cybersecurity events. Organizations need to be prepared and respond quickly to the potential threat. Thus it is crucial to have a Threat Intelligence Pl...

It’s safe to say that we can’t even measure the amount of digital data present in cyberspace. But if we research a little, then we find that there are approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated online, each day.  Because of such a huge quantity of data, it’s critical for your business to use the means of threat intelligence to keep your data secured from potential threats. In this article, we will discuss threat intelligence, and why you need one. What is Threat Intelligence? In this age of technology, it’s important to safeguard your business against all possible cyber attacks. Therefore, companies use the means of threat intelligence to identify potential cyber threats.  There are professionals who look into these potential threats so that the organization can be prepared against possible breaches of their sensitive data. They can also take necessary precautions by backing up data and stopping their valuable resources from being lost. How does it work? With the he...