How to Use Cyber Threat Intelligence: the Basics

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is a framework for collecting, processing, and analyzing information about potential or ongoing cyber threats.  

Put simply, it’s the collection of various types of threat intelligence, such as IOCs, TTPs used by threat actors, and their motivations and capabilities, with the ultimate goal of understanding your system’s attack surface and proactively patching vulnerabilities.

But collecting data is one thing. Making sense of it is another. In …

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