Disseminating Cyberthreat Intelligence to Enhance Information Security

Today, cyberthreat intelligence is used by organizations across the globe to increase the stability of their security postures, and the exchange of threat intelligence has become increasingly important. Existing cyberthreat intelligence resources are largely open source (or publicly available), an architecture that helps the cybersecurity community better understand security risks and develop preventive and response plans to address them. The current manuscript provides insights into the role and importance of threat intelligence and explains the modes available for business and security teams to obtain reliable intelligence on the evolving cyberthreat landscape. Though the essential building blocks of cyberthreat intelligence are expected to remain largely the same moving forward, the threat intelligence dissemination process could be further improved using emerging technologies like blockchain. The manuscript also briefly discusses the threat intelligence platforms that are currently available and the limitations of cyberthreat intelligence.