KNOW YOUR ADVERSARY, POWER YOUR INCIDENT RESPONSE.
Intelligence on the external cyber threat landscape is vital for incident response, business continuity, and digital resilience. Understanding adversary motivations and capabilities helps incident response teams adapt their strategies to the threats they face, enabling more targeted detection, mitigation, and breach containment. Intel 471’s unmatched adversary intelligence and collection provide external threat visibility when it matters to help organizations detect, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents.
An incident response team with context about an intrusion and awareness of adversary motivations, behaviors, and targeting can dramatically reduce the impact of a breach. Organizations can correlate, prioritize, and enrich threat response activity with Intel 471’s unmatched underground collection to create an intelligence advantage for your incident response.
INCIDENT RESPONSE DEMANDS INTEL 471 INTELLIGENCE
Intel 471 cyber threat intelligence (CTI) provides real-time intelligence about threats, breaches, malware, vulnerabilities, threat actors and your attack surface to improve internal threat intelligence data for faster detection and containment during an attack. CTI on the external threat landscape helps craft proactive controls and measures at each stage of incident response.
Preparation
A better understanding of the threat landscape, high-risk threat actors, and their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) can help define and stress-test the incident response plan (IRP). Enrich incident response (IR) detections with CTI insights and context to improve response and identify control gaps. Enable proactive detection controls and prioritize response with tabletop exercises using insights into malware, campaigns, vulnerabilities and threats.
Incident Analysis and Response
The ability to pivot on TTPs and indicators of compromise (IOCs) provides critical context during incident analysis and remediation. Intel 471 helps CTI reporting, risk-based assessments, and automated breach and malware intelligence collection to support IR during incident escalation, root cause analysis, and reporting phases.
Containment and Remediation
TTPs can help prioritize containment actions to limit damages, such as by isolating systems and data an attacker is likely to target, and preventing the breach spreading further. With adversary TTPs, responders can more easily identify the root cause and address vulnerabilities to remediate and restore a system.
Post-Incident Recovery and Continuity of Operations
Intel 471 aligns CTI reporting with the Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks to help customers identify detection and prevention gaps during an incident and implement prevention measures. Intel 471’s CTI-driven HUNTER platform also supports threat hunting teams engaged with incident response to identify undetected threats for escalation to incident response, visibility gaps in automated detection tools, and opportunities for detection creation.
