Moving Toward a Security Intelligence Program
Today, cyber threats are coming from everywhere — the open web and dark web, but also partners and other third parties, brand attacks, and internal threats — and digital business risk is at an all-time high. This leaves everyone without a true, comprehensive view of their entire threat landscape vulnerable.
A comprehensive cybersecurity strategy requires the implementation of techniques and technology to proactively reduce risk and stop threats fast. This book explains how security intelligence helps teams working in security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, risk analysis, threat analysis, fraud prevention, and security leadership make better, faster decisions and amplify their impact.
We call this approach “security intelligence” because it goes beyond just threat intelligence (though threat intelligence remains a central pillar) and also encompasses digital risk protection and third-party risk management. It’s a framework that amplifies the effectiveness of security teams and tools by exposing unknown threats, informing better decisions, and driving a common understanding to ultimately accelerate risk reduction across the organization.
In this second edition of the Handbook, you’ll find a completely new introductory chapter on threat intelligence that breaks down what threat intelligence is and how every security function benefits from it, as well as two entirely new chapters — one on third-party risk reduction, and one on digital risk protection. Together, these three pillars of security intelligence provide the comprehensive view of both your internal and external threat landscape that every organization needs today to reduce cyber risk and stay ahead of threats of all kinds.
This is only the start. Recorded Future will soon be publishing new materials that go into more depth on these three areas of security intelligence, how they reinforce each other, and how they can be addressed by a single technology platform. For more information, check regularly at recordedfuture.com.
