An Introduction to Cyber Threat Intelligence: Key Concepts and Principles

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), or threat intelligence, is evidence-based knowledge established from current cyber threats, gathered from myriad sources to identify existing or potential attacks. Threat intelligence assists in identifying the motives, targets, and attack behaviors of a threat actor and implementing strong defenses from future attacks. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach 2022 report, the average data breach costs its victims $4.35 million. Using threat intelligence, these losses can be mitigated, and such attacks can be avoided. Threat intelligence benefits organizations…