Manage Digital Risk
Address Critical Business Needs
How Breach Readiness Is Enhanced by Threat Intelligence
Breach readiness is essential to limiting the impact of data breaches, regardless of industry or company size. Recent RSA research determined the current state of breach readiness and response at large organizations. The four critical areas considered in the survey were threat intelligence, content intelligence, analytic intelligence, and incident response....
Read more
Measure your Readiness - Threat Intelligence Program
In the first part of this series we talked about the journey to undertake building a security monitoring and incident response program based on five dimensions: analytics, governance, measurement, operational and organizational. The third main program, also considered a primary capability of an effective Security Operations Center, is the development of tactical,...
Threat Intelligence Sharing: Customized Solutions to Challenges
Threat intelligence sharing is a hot and sometimes contentious topic. While its necessity and justifications are generally known, there are legitimate reasons why sharing information on a large scale has been met with resistance. The Argument for Sharing When sharing intelligence, it is important to establish from the outset that combining best practices for...
The Realm of Threat Intelligence - Journey from the past into an Advanced SOC
Using Intelligence to gather information on your adversary is not a new concept, Military and Government Agencies have been involved gathering information to use against their opponents since the days of Sun-Tzu and Chanakya. Cyber Intelligence has also been the domain for Government agencies like the UK’s GCHQ and the US’s NSA for many years;...
Threat Intelligence Cooperation: Creating Shared Value
The Value of Sharing Threat Intelligence
Four Characteristics of Top-Notch Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence is a hot topic these days and was arguably one of the top themes of RSA Conference 2016. However, organizations need to realize that simply having more data about the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits is not the answer to all their cybersecurity problems. On the contrary, threat intelligence is only helpful if...
First principles of a Cyber Threat Intelligence Program
Recently, as part of the scope in establishing a Security Operation Center for a European telecommunications company, I have been asked to develop a cyber threat intelligence (CTI) program. The goal is to better understand the motives, capabilities and objectives of threat actors that might seek to target the organization so that adequate countermeasures could...
Identifying Fraud Faster with Intelligence Feeds - Web Threat Detection v6
Online fraud remains as much a part of digital life as URLs. Fraudsters are constantly devising new ways to separate consumers from their money, login credentials, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), healthcare data and anything else that can be monetized. Even more, they are doing it with speed and sophistication, but most damaging, they do it...
Risk Intelligence Reveals Opportunity for Competitive Advantage
Risk intelligence measures an organization’s understanding and implementation of risk management strategies, which are essential to gaining a competitive advantage in any industry. However, after indexing nearly 400 organizations, RSA concluded that less than 10 percent of companies have a risk management strategy that is mature enough to be considered “advantaged.”...
The Realm of Threat Intelligence - Attack Scenarios and Use Cases
The three previous blogs in this series have covered Packet Analysis, Log Analysis and Threat Intelligence; this final article aims to bring all of this information into one cohesive solution for any SOC or Cyber Defence organisation. For further reading on this subject please see our presentation at last year’s RSA Conference in Abu Dhabi...
Blog posts by category
Around RSA
Industry Perspectives
Products & Solutions
Securing the Digital World
The Language of Cybersecurity
Need help? Click on the button below to begin a chat session.
