Enterprise Threat Intelligence

Your enterprise growing can be a double-edged sword: as your organization scales, adding more employees, third parties, customers, and locations, your attack surface expands as well. This creates more vectors for attackers to exploit, and more potential vulnerabilities. Enterprise threat intelligence is critical for your team; when they know what risks your organization faces, they can better protect your data and networks.

Monitoring Enterprise Threat Intelligence with Flare

Why use Flare to monitor your enterprise threat intelligence?

The threat landscape is constantly evolving. Cybercriminals are constantly working to refine their attacks, and find a way into your data. They gather in “obscured” parts of the Internet, such as in dark web forums to discuss tactics, or buy and sell information. Flare provides organizations with insights and monitors those pockets of activity, so that your team has eyes and ears wherever threat actors gather.

How does Flare monitor enterprise threat intelligence?

Flare’s platform automates the process of scanning for threats, monitoring the clear & dark web continuously, and sending you alerts when it detects your organization, employees’ names, domains, IP, or any other key information so your team can find leaked or stolen data and take action quickly. When your proprietary information appears in places it should not be, Flare lets you know immediately.

What are the key benefits of Flare’s enterprise threat intelligence solution?

Automated continuous monitoring: Using an automated solution gives you 24/7 coverage, keeping you on top of your enterprise’s data security.
A proactive security stance: By actively seeking out potential threats, you can catch breaches early and take steps to protect your enterprise’s data, systems, and networks.
Interpretation of alerts: Not every threat actor speaks your language. Flare’s AI Assist helps your team by translating relevant threats, as well as by interpreting threat data in ways that will make sense to your enterprise’s leadership.

A Closer Look at Enterprise Threat Intelligence

What is enterprise threat intelligence?

Enterprise threat intelligence is any information about potential or existing threats to an enterprise’s information assets. This intelligence helps organizations understand, anticipate, and mitigate threats to their IT infrastructure, data, and business operations. Because your enterprise encompasses your business, your supply chain, your partners and anyone else who has access to your networks and systems, good threat intelligence covers your enterprise’s entire attack surface.

What are the four types of enterprise threat intelligence?

Threat intelligence typically falls into four categories:

Strategic: Summarizes potential threats, trends, and their business impact.
Tactical: Information about the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) being used by threat actors.
Technical: Alerts an organization when an attack is underway and helps block the attack.
Operational: Data that’s used to anticipate future attacks.

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How is enterprise threat intelligence gathered?

Enterprise threat intelligence is collected from a wide range of sources including:

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): OSINT is data that is publicly available. It comes from sources like the media, social media, forums and any other content that is publicly accessible.
Closed source intelligence: Closed source intelligence comes from proprietary or restricted information sources, such as commercial threat intelligence feeds, private forums, underground marketplaces and dark web sources.
Internal security data: Your own enterprise data can also provide valuable security insights. You can pull this information from network logs, security event logs, endpoint telemetry, firewall logs, intrusion detection system (IDS) alerts and any other internal security data sources you may have.
Incident response data: Incident response data includes information about past security incidents, including the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by threat actors provides important lessons learned, enabling organizations to understand attack patterns and refine their defenses.
Industry and information sharing communities: It’s important for security teams to talk to their peers. Industry-specific information sharing communities and collaborating with trusted peers can provide valuable threat intelligence. Sharing insights, best practices, and threat intelligence within these communities allows organizations to gain access to a broader range of threat data and collective knowledge.
External threat feeds and integrations: External threat intelligence feeds from reputable sources provide real-time updates on things like emerging threats, indicators of compromise (IOCs), malware signatures, and malicious IP addresses or domains.

Why is Enterprise Threat Intelligence Important to your Organization Right Now?

Why invest in enterprise threat intelligence in today’s threat landscape?

Forums on the dark web are like a think tank for criminals; threat actors share intelligence with one another there, buy and sell malware, and buy companies’ information. They are constantly talking with one another and improving their ability to hack into organization’s systems and data. Without the same level of intelligence, it’s difficult for cybersecurity professionals to counter their attacks. If criminals are using threat intelligence, it stands to reason that your enterprise should have its own sources of threat intelligence.

How can enterprise threat intelligence help stop breaches?

Effective enterprise threat intelligence gives you a window into possible threats before an attack even takes place. It can help your organization strengthen its cyber defenses, hunt for threats, remediate vulnerabilities, improve compliance, and streamline your cybersecurity processes. In other words, you can’t prepare for threats you don’t know about.

What is the impact of data theft?

Attacks can cause serious damage to your enterprise. The average cost of a data breach is $4.45 million. This is just an average, however: many industries experience higher costs. These costs include the cost of finding and remediating the breach, interruptions of operations, legal fees and other fines.