Question

why cyber threat intelligence started, who uses it, what it actually entails, give 2 to 3 possible examples of how information was obtained and turned into usable cyber threat intelligence (CTI)

Answer 1

Cyber Threat Intelligence is a part of cyber security that collects the information related to cyber attacks on any organization. It prevents data breaches and provides security. Its main objective is to spread awareness regarding cyber crimes among organizations and issues guidelines to prevent those attacks.

In this growing world, there is massive data is generated and there is increase in number of customers using Online applications. Due to this, there are various threats emerging and are responsible for breaching data. Cyber Threat Intelligence has been started to address these cyber security issues.

These Cyber security Intelligence is provided by various vendors and being used by various organization to protect their data and follow security measures.

Cyber security Intelligence provides the information to organization which can be used to access the previous and present threats along with forecasting the future threats.

In 2015 Amazon prevented a cyber security attack on it's users. They reset the passwords of few users and send the notification to them. This was done based on the information that the passwords of these users are improperly stored. Thus it prevented a major cyber security breach from happening.

In 2016 Uber has prevented a similar attack from happening based on the intelligence report. The data of uber customers has been secured by following security measures. This was done after the security breach on the uber drivers data. Thus uber was successful in preventing the data breach of its customers.