Cyber threat intelligence aims to help institutions and organizations understand the risks of cyber attacks or cyber threats. These attacks can range from zero-day attacks, crypto viruses, APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), botnets, or exploits. These threats are reported with the intelligence activities after being reviewed by CTI analysts to provide special protection methods to assist in an active defense in your organization.

The skilled, well-funded, well-organized, and highly-sophisticated cyber attackers use techniques that reveal security strategies to the technology alone. To develop a defense strategy against attackers, organizations need to know how hackers operate, how they function, and what techniques they use.

Cyber-threat intelligence allows companies to identify the dynamics and consequences of risks, improve security plans and structures, and reduce their attack potential to minimize damage and defend their network.

CTI can identify and analyze cyber threats against your business. Therefore, CTI can help you to:

• Focus on actionable alarms; the legacy threat intelligence solution provided only feeds and (Indicator of Compromise) IOCs, which were not actionable. But organizations started to need more and more of the latest intelligence about them. With real-time intelligence on threat actors, botnets, malware, and data from the dark web and the deep internet, organizations need to detect phishing domains targeting their customers.
• Collect, Verify, and Prioritize External Threats; CTI can deliver the hard work for your business with enriched intelligence that allows you to apply smarter defense and improvement processes.
• Detect Forgotten Assets and Monitor Attack Surface in Real-time; CTI can determine the blind spots by following the changing attack surface all the time.
• Prevent Data Loss; by using CTI, cyber threats can be detected, and security breaches can be prevented from disclosing confidential information.

Various threatening knowledge and theoretical approaches are useful at various businesses’ levels. The four categories of cyber threat intelligence have to do with different objectives:

• Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence; It utilizes comprehensive pattern and emerging risk analysis to provide an outline of future cyber-attack implications.
• Operational Cyber Threat Intelligence; It is mainly used to make resource management decisions regarding actual and potential risks, historical resources, affiliations, and motives of threat actors.
• Tactical Cyber Threat Intelligence; Primarily, its main target is a technically trained audience and allows them to learn more specific details on threat actors’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Technical Cyber Threat Intelligence; It focuses on the technological details suggesting a cyber-security threat, such as phishing email lines or malicious URLs.

Usually, cyber threat intelligence and cyber intelligence terms are used for the same meaning. But in theory, the two terms have different contexts.

CTI is the collection and revealing of threats that may harm business elements and security at any level to institutions and organizations. It is a type of intelligence that enables early measures to be taken by detecting the goals, methods, or types of attacks of the attackers as a result of analyzing the data collected and enriched from electronic media through a process.

CTI provides information on malicious actors, their tools, their infrastructure, and their methods for;

• Identifying types of attacks,
• Defining, guiding, and prioritizing operational requirements,
• Understanding threat actor capability, tactics, techniques, and procedures,
• Deploying detection systems,
• Developing defense strategies.
• Cyber intelligence (CI) translates the data obtained from the attackers’ networks into an operative report through “standard intelligence approaches.”

As can be understood from the definitions, while CTI focuses information on cyber threats, CI focuses on useful Intel from the Internet.