Strategic Threat Intelligence for Better Decision-Making
Recorded Future outlines strategic threat intelligence: non-technical, OSINT-driven analysis for board-level decisions and the skill sets needed to produce it.
Recorded Future's blog post explains that threat intelligence spans strategic, tactical, operational, and technical categories, focusing on strategic intelligence. It defines strategic intelligence as non-technical, risk-based analysis produced mainly from OSINT sources on demand for C-suite and board audiences. The piece stresses the sociopolitical and business expertise required and urges boards to ask trend-focused questions rather than demanding specific attack predictions.
- Strategic intelligence is non-technical, made-to-order analysis for executives.
- Most sources are OSINT, creating volume and language processing challenges.
- Analysts need sociopolitical and business expertise beyond core security skills.
- Boards should ask about threat trends rather than demanding specific attack forecasts.
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From the original article
6 min read at recordedfuture.com
Threat intelligence is often thought of as a single function, but in reality, it can be broken down into four categories: strategic, tactical, operational, and technical. Strategic threat intelligence is non-technical, and is used by high-level strategists to inform specific decisions. For the most part, strategic threat intelligence comes from sources that are freely available.
By THE RECORDED FUTURE TEAM · recordedfuture.com
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