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RAISING YOUR THREAT IQ: THE IMPORTANCE OF

DEMOCRATIZING THREAT INTELLIGENCE

By Travis Farral, director of security strategy at Anomali

Threat intelligence continues to become a more ubiquitous feature of information
security programs as its value in detecting and preventing attacks becomes more clear.

Whether organizations have a full threat intelligence team, ingest threat feeds, or simply

leverage threat intelligence features found in common security tools, they are benefiting
from threat intelligence in one way or another.

From the prior article, by the Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine, you can see how
important speeding up Detection time and Response time is to successfully mitigating

breaches. With better, faster, democratized sharing of threat intel, we may have a

chance to start winning the battle and stopping the breaches. Until systems in the
marketplace are fast enough to defeat the latest threat, we lose as seen in the graphic,

below, provided by Gary Miliefsky from his Time-based Security presentation:

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