With today’s constantly evolving cyber landscape, combined with companies embracing a remote workforce, threat intelligence has become a crucial tool for businesses seeking operational resilience. Simply stated, threat intelligence is the collection and analysis of data points that illustrate trends that could negatively impact a business or organization. These trends may include disruptions in supply chains, civil unrest, increased cyberattack activity, reputational threats and a host of other potential hazards.

This evidenced-based knowledge includes context, mechanisms, indicators and actionable direction about existing or emerging dangers to people and assets.

This paper explores what threat intelligence is — and isn’t, why it’s crucial for a variety of industries and what expectations team leaders should set for their security goals.