Threat Intelligence for successful compliance is often overlooked. First of all, complying with legal requirements and business policies does not ensure cybersecurity. Rigorous security measures may not satisfy regulatory compliance requirements. However, compliance is a crucial baseline that enterprises can build on to forge a unified strategy toward regulations and threats.
Compliance alone drives much cybersecurity decision-making for enterprises and their budgets. Enterprises often view threat intelligence as outside of the grasp of compliance frameworks. Yet, threat intelligence can allow enterprises to optimize their security posture and unite the goals of governance, risk, and compliance.
Threat Intelligence for Successful Compliance and the NIST Framework
Within the NIST framework, for example, threat intelligence can assist with the five critical functions of identifying, protecting, detecting, responding, and recovering.
Identify
Threat intelligence allows security teams to identify and adapt to threats. Under the NIST framework, one must analyze threats, vulnerabilities, likelihoods, and impacts to determine risks. Threat intelligence also helps enterprises identify potential business impacts and likelihoods while providing context around threat activity.
Protect
Threat intelligence allows enterprises to execute targeted security management based on specific, relevant threats. Aggregated threat intelligence, like CTIQ’s algorithm, combines multiple feeds to specify known indicators of compromise (IOCs). Cybersecurity teams who use CTIQ can implement more robust access controls and patch management to protect their environments from emergent threats.
Detect
Threat intelligence solutions like CTIQ boost detection activities. Threat hunting and analyzing IOC becomes much more streamlined, with the information received explicitly curated for your technology profile.
Respond
The information provided by threat intelligence systems is invaluable to incident response. Threat intelligence allows response teams to connect incident indicators with relevant alerts and known threats. Teams empowered with data targeted for their technology profile can more quickly identify patterns and conduct investigations faster.
Recover
Analyzing the threat intelligence data related to attack vectors, tactics, and techniques allows the cybersecurity team to identify the vulnerabilities that led to the incident. Further, threat intelligence information continues to supply the digest of emerging, relevant threats necessary to prevent other incidents in the future.
CTIQ: Threat Intelligence for Successful Compliance
No tools eliminate the need for regulatory compliance or cybersecurity, but organizations that integrate threat intelligence solutions like CTIQ make the most of their investments in both. Contact us to learn more about how CTIQ can enhance compliance across your organization.
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