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Making a Business Case for Cyber Threat

Intelligence: Unveiling the Value Realization

Framework

By Kaustubh Medhe, Head of Research and Intelligence at Cyble

Cybercriminal motivations rarely change over time. A typical cyberattack is carried out for one of the
following reasons -

1. Illicit financial gain via disruptive attacks such as ransomware, denial-of-service (DoS) or
cryptocurrency theft

2. Intellectual property theft or corporate espionage for strategic competitive advantage

3. Sensitive data exfiltration for geo-political supremacy

4. Influencing public opinion by propagating a false/biased narrative through misinformation or
disinformation campaigns for achieving socio-political objectives

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