Mapping and Monitoring Cyber Threats
From the post:
Threats to information security are part of everyday life for government agencies and companies both big and small. Monitoring network activity, setting up firewalls, and establishing various forms of authentication are irreplaceable components of IT security infrastructure, yet strategic defensive work increasingly requires the added context of real world events. The web and its multitude of channels covering emerging threat vectors and hacker news can help provide warning signs of potentially disruptive information security events.
However, the challenge that analysts typically face is an overwhelming volume of intelligence that requires brute force aggregation, organization, and assessment. What if significant portions of the first two tasks could be accomplished more efficiently allowing for greater resources allocated to the all important third step of analysis?
We’ll outline how Recorded Future can help security teams harness the open source intelligence available on various threat vectors and attacks, activity of known cyber organizations during particular periods of time, and explicit warnings as well as implicit risks for the future.
Interesting but I would add to the “threat” map known instances where recordable media can be used, email or web traffic traceable to hacker lists/websites, offices or departments with prior security issues and the like.
Security can become too narrowly focused on technological issues, ignoring that a large number of security breaches are the result of human lapses or social engineering. A bit broader mapping of security concerns can help keep the relative importance of threats in perspective.
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