Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) involves collecting, evaluating, and analyzing cyber threat information using expertise and all-source information to provide insight and understanding of complex cyber situations. CTI can include tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence about security events, indicators of compromise, malware behavior, threat actors, and mapping online threats to geopolitical events over short, medium, and long timeframes. Implementing CTI enables organizations to prepare for and respond to existing and unknown threats through evidence-based knowledge and actionable advice beyond just reactive defense measures.

1. Cyber Threat Intelligence:-
Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is what cyber threat information becomes once it has been
collected, evaluated in the context of its source and reliability, and analyzed through rigorous
and structured tradecraft techniques by those with substantive expertise and access to all-
source information.
What CyberIntelligence:
Intelligence is data that provides both insight and foresight to the end user and a degree of
understanding of complex situations by consideration of the provenance, pedigree and context
of the source material, the processing methods and the documents that verify the findings.
Types of Threat Intelligence:
 Tactical Intelligence
 Operational Intelligence
 Strategic Intelligence
CATEGORY ANALYZING OUTPUT TIME
Tactical
Security events, IOCs like file hashes,
malicious domains, emails, links and
attachments, registry keys,
filenames, DLLs
MRTI, data feeds Short-term
Operational
Malware family behavior and
profiles, threat actors, human
behavior, tactical intel, TTPs,
communications and persistence
techniques
Reports, lists and
trend patterns
Medium-term

2. Strategic
Operational intelligence,
cyberthreats in the context of
business objectives, mapping online
threats onto geopolitical events
Reports, trends,
methodologies
Long-term
Why we have to consider CTI very seriously?
While most think TI is an assemblage of indicators of compromise or a listing of limited
information about specific threats to security, there's much more to it than that. Many
companies don't even have a complete understanding of their assets, infrastructures,
operations, and personnel so they are quite ignorant of what vulnerabilities they are making
available to those with malicious intent.
Notion behind bringing threat intelligence into picture for IT organizations:
 To enable individuals and organizations with the ability to prepare and run a threat
intelligence program that allows ‘evidence-based knowledge’ and provides ‘actionable
advice’ about ‘existing and unknown threats’.
 To ensure that organizations have predictive capabilities rather than just proactive
measures beyond active defense mechanism.
 To empower information security professionals with the skills to develop a professional,
systematic, and repeatable real-life threat intelligence program.
 To differentiate threat intelligence professionals from other information security
professionals.
 To provide an invaluable ability of structured threat intelligence to enhance skills and
boost their employability.
What is the need of CTI
 Designing and strategizing TI platforms to match the current cyber security trends
 Firstly, Attack models are increasingly incestuous
 Also, Cyber Attacks are becoming more customized
 Cybercriminals are focusing new emerging Technologies
 Growing Sophistication of Existing Malware
 Gathering and Maintaining CTI
 Peer-based TI
 Expert-led Threat Reports
Top Reasons Why CTI Matters: -
1. Lowering Costs
2. Lowering Risks
3. Avoid loss of data
4. Maximizing staffing
5. In-depth Threat Analysis

3. 6. Threat Intelligence Sharing
How does Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (C|TIA) credential help mitigate rising threats?
Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (C|TIA) is one of the most prominent, method-driven
programs on the market today. It utilizes a unique holistic approach by covering concepts
starting from planning the threat intelligence project to building a threat intelligence report.
What threat intelligence is so demanding and Important:
An internal list of systems or users that are the subject of current security investigations.
Here you would use TI to flag up any activity relating to those “sensitive” systems/identities to
the relevant people immediately, rather than depending on their actions triggering some other
security detection system.
When Blockchain meets TI:
These days, it seems that everyone is talking about Blockchain, Bitcoin, or some kind of crypto-
currency-related topic. This is our turn to talk about blockchain and how, sooner rather than
later, even threat intelligence will find its way, meet, and coordinate with blockchain in practice.
How TI Manages Digital Risk:

4. Effective digital risk management can be handled with one all-inclusive TI platform that is
capable of several different functions.
To get summarized with here are the most important things that organizations has to ensure
when they are planning to implement TI in their respective organizations on an enterprise level.
 Define the needs or requirements from IT Security perspective
 Data collection
 Data processing
 Data analysis
 Lessons learnt, action items, remediation strategies.
Why is Threat Intelligence Important?
Threat intelligence solutions gather raw data about emerging or existing threat actors and
threats from a number of sources. This data is then analyzed and filtered to produce threat intel
feeds and management reports that contain information that can be used by automated security
control solutions.
The primary purpose of this type of security is to keep organizations informed of the risks
of advanced persistent threats, zero-day threats and exploits, and how to protect against them.
When implemented well, threat intelligence can help to achieve the following objectives:
Ensure you stay up to date with the often overwhelming volume of threats, including methods,
vulnerabilities, targets and bad actors.
 Help you become more proactive about future cybersecurity threats.
 Keep leaders, stakeholders and users informed about the latest threats and repercussions
they could have on the business.