What is a Threat Intelligence Platform?
Threat intelligence platforms and tools are software solutions designed to facilitate the collection, analysis, and management of threat intelligence data. These platforms offer a centralized and organized environment for analysts to collect, gather, process, and analyze threat intelligence effectively.
How Threat Intelligence Platforms Work
While threats evolve and occur spontaneously, the process for finding and analyzing the data is virtually the same. There are six primary features and capabilities to look for in a TIP.
This includes:
- Aggregation – Collecting threat intelligence data from multiple sources.
- Enrichment – Enhancing raw intel with additional context and metadata.
- Threat Analytics – Validating and analyzing collected intel to identify trends and patterns.
- Intel Management – Organizing and managing indicators of compromise (IOCs).
- Intel Sharing – Sharing intel via machine-readable data feeds for consumption by downstream security technologies and sharing threat intelligence with trusted partners or industry peers.
- Dashboards – These are useful for displaying charts and tables related to collected intelligence to visually convey information.
Cyber threat intelligence analysts, SOC analysts, and incident responders can use and take advantage of the features a TIP provides.
Benefits of a Threat Intel Platform
Threat intelligence platforms are beneficial for companies in order to stay on top of the latest cyber security intelligence. Threat intel is crucial to mitigating cyber threats to a company. Integrating a threat intelligence platform into security operations and cyber risk management offers several benefits, including:
- Early threat detection: Real-time insights on threat actors help security teams detect threats early, allowing them to take action to prevent and minimize the impact of attacks.
- Easily share information: TIPs make sharing information and threat findings easy between internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Industry-specific insights: The platform provides security teams timely insights into cyber threats affecting their industry.
ThreatConnect’s TI Ops Platform Is The Leading TIP In The Industry
A Threat Intelligence Operations (TI Ops) Platform is an evolution of TIPs that contains modern features, like AI and automation, for threat intelligence work. A TI Ops Platform goes beyond helping analysts manage and produce threat intelligence; it enables threat intelligence to be operationalized for both intel producers and consumers/customers.
ThreatConnect’s TI Ops platform has several features to help cybersecurity teams proactively maintain the security and resilience of their company’s data and assets.
Key platform features include:
- Unified Threat Library: Serves as a comprehensive source of threat intelligence that is adaptable to your needs and capable of handling vast amounts of data. It standardizes and streamlines threat intel, making it ready for use by Threat Intel and SecOps teams.
- CAL™: This innovative capability uses Generative AI, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) to deliver advanced analytics and global intelligence.
- Built-in Low-Code Automation: Low-code automation helps analysts save valuable time and focus on more critical operational threat intelligence activities by enabling the rapid construction and automation of tasks, processes, and playbooks.
- Visualize Threat Behaviors: ATT&CK Visualizer streamlines the process of mapping threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) directly against threat intel and organizational defenses.
- Intelligence Requirements: The platform’s Intelligence Requirements capability enables customers to define, activate, and track their requirements, improving threat intelligence operations to be more efficient and actionable.
- Built-in Reporting: Sharing threat intel with security operations and cyber risk leaders is vital for timely, data-driven decisions. Reporting built directly into the platform enables analysts to easily create, share, and manage actionable reports.
Related Resources:
To understand the different types of Threat Intelligence Platforms, check out our Buyer’s Guide for Threat Intelligence Operations.
To decide which TIP is right for your organization, check out Choosing the Right Platform for Threat Intelligence.
There are 8 crucial questions to ask when evaluating a Threat Intel Platform to make it the correct fit. Check them out – 8 Questions to Ask a Threat Intelligence Platform Vendor.
To learn more about ThreatConnect’s TI Ops Platform, visit our Threat Intelligence Operations page and take the interactive tour!
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