Home > Resources > Whitepapers > Threat Intelligence: Collecting, Analysing, Evaluating

Threat Intelligence: Collecting, Analysing, Evaluating

Threat intelligence is rapidly becoming an ever-higher business priority. There is a general awareness of the need to ‘do’ threat intelligence, and vendors are falling over themselves to offer a confusingly diverse array of threat intelligence products. The promise of threat intelligence is alluring. It should help organisations to understand and manage business risk – to turn unknown threats into known and mitigated threats, and to improve the effectiveness of defence. After all, targeted attacks need targeted defence. If analysis is performed correctly, the products of threat intelligence can be genuinely useful to a business, providing real benefits at all levels, from on-theground defenders to the board.

Spotlight

CyberWarrior Academy

The CyberWarrior Academy (CWA) is a technical training and job placement program that prepares you for a career in cybersecurity. CWA is a hands-on, intensive training program delivered by cybersecurity practitioners and white-hat hackers who provide you with real-world lessons and experience to successfully navigate the rapidly changing IT Security threat landscape. You’ll develop the technical competency to deliver immediate value, and you’ll learn how to constantly investigate new innovations to keep your skills relevant.

OTHER WHITEPAPERS

2023 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey

whitePaper | June 26, 2023

While we are witnessing a modest slowdown in cloud migration due to rising costs and economic uncertainty, it remains that a multitude of organizations now have a hybrid infrastructure in place. According to Forrester analysts,1 this is deemed very much the norm and reports show 72 percent of organizations exist in the hybrid cloud.2 This is because enterprises will likely have paired their own data center/private cloud with one or more public clouds as a result of acquisition or to reap a number of benefits: Cisco, for example, identified 42 percent of organizations believe they achieve a more agile and scalable development environment within the hybrid cloud, alongside 40 percent who realize accelerated business agility and innovation.3

Building a Successful Cloud Infrastructure Security and Compliance Practice

whitePaper | December 28, 2022

Cloud security truly is a team sport that requires strong collaboration between security, IT and line of business teams. The dynamic nature of cloud is forcing information security teams to rethink how they operate and partner with other groups to address emerging security and compliance challenges their organizations face.

Ransomware Data Recovery Architectures

whitePaper | September 26, 2022

Ransomware attacks have been on the rise in recent years. They are extremely insidious in nature and have been foremost in many CEOs’ and CIOs’ minds lately. Ransomware is malware that prevents an enterprise from accessing and using its data, usually by encrypting the data in an inconspicuous manner so the victim does not know the attack is occurring.

Application Security in a Multi-Cloud World

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

In the mad dash to the cloud, organizations have turned their application environments into a miscellaneous mess. Whether it be private, public or on-premise, organizations are leveraging heterogenous application hosting environments as they transition to the next phase of cloud computing: The multi-cloud.

Unify data security, privacy, and governance with contextual data classification

whitePaper | November 29, 2022

Enterprise data can be a transformative asset. It can unlock insights and intelligence to fuel innovation, accelerate organizational growth, and create a significant competitive advantage — so long as it’s properly used.

VIRSEC ® SECURITY PLATFORM

whitePaper | December 10, 2019

Advanced application attacks that weaponize at runtime (WRT) are increasingly putting businesses at risk. These attacks challenge application security by leveraging fileless malware, memory corruption and uncommon vulnerabilities to evade traditional security solutions. WRTs manipulate legitimate processes and enable stealthy execution of malicious code, resulting in data breaches, damaged infrastructure, and financial losses.

Threat Intelligence: Collecting, Analysing, Evaluating