What is Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence is a key component of network security and can provide valuable insights into potential malicious sources. This knowledge can help organizations proactively identify and prevent cyber attacks. By leveraging threat sources such as STIX/TAXII, organizations can detect threats in their networks. potential attacks, thereby facilitating rapid detection and tracking of targeted attacks.
Critical to proactive defense, effective incident response, risk management, situational awareness, collaboration, and compliance, threat intelligence enables organizations to stay ahead of threats, make informed decisions, and strengthen their overall cybersecurity posture.
Threat Intelligence Type
The three types of threat intelligence data are:
- Strategic Intelligence : It helps organizations in strategic planning and decision-making by providing high-level insights into long-term trends, motivations, and goals of threat actors.
- Operational Intelligence : It provides real-time information on persistent threats, vulnerabilities, and active attack activity, helping to quickly detect and respond to security threats.
- Tactical Intelligence : It focuses on specific tools, techniques, and processes (TTPs) used by threat actors, helping security administrators develop effective countermeasures and strengthen defenses.
Phases of Threat Intelligence
The threat intelligence lifecycle consists of six phases:
- Planning and direction : Define the goals, resources, and scope of the threat intelligence program.
- Gather : Gather relevant data from various sources, such as open source intelligence, vendors, and threat feeds.
- Processing : Organizing and analyzing collected data to gain valuable insights.
- Analysis : Understand threats, their impact, and tactics employed by threat actors through pattern recognition and indicator identification.
- Dissemination : Dissemination of intelligence with relevant stakeholders to guide decision making and prompt appropriate action.
- Feedback and Improvement : Gather feedback, evaluate program effectiveness, and use insights to improve future work.
Threat Intelligence Platform
The Log360 threat intelligence platform is used to detect and resolve security threats faster. With the built-in threat detection module and advanced threat analysis plug-in, administrators can block malicious sources, prevent data leakage, and block access to malicious sites. The integrated platform combines open source and commercial threat feeds to reduce false positives, accelerate threat detection, and help triage critical security threats.
detection and mitigation
- Users visiting blacklisted and risky URLs and domains.
- Malicious IPs attempt to gain access to critical corporate resources.
understand deeper
- The geographic location of the malicious actor trying to break in.
- attack skills.
Security Use Cases That Threat Intelligence Solutions Can Address
- Block attack attempts early
- Prevent Data Leakage
- security alert
- Reduce false positives
Block attack attempts early
Exploiting public-facing machines and known vulnerabilities remains a method for hackers to gain access to networks, and with Log360's pre-configured threat alerts, businesses can not only block communications from malicious sources, but also automatically trigger workflows to remove blacklisted Add the IPs to the firewall and block them permanently.
Prevent Data Leakage
If an attacker uses stolen credentials or any other means to break into a network and attempt to extort sensitive data and send it to its command and control server, Log360's threat intelligence solution can immediately detect and stop such communication, inspecting all outbound communications; Alerts relevant analysts of communications to malicious IPs, domains, or URLs and terminates connections immediately.
security alert
Detecting which security alerts pose the greatest risk to the business is a challenging task for every security professional, and Log360's Advanced Threat Analysis module identifies threats and attack types, including malware, phishing, and other attack. These insights can also be leveraged in the Incident Investigation module to better substantiate threats and prioritize their resolution.
Reduce false positives
Log360 is an incident response system, such as the reputation score of an IP attempting to telnet to a critical server, or the geographic location of an IP attempting to telnet to a VPN. This increases visibility into network behavior and helps distinguish suspicious activity from legitimate activity.