Abstract: In this real world, protecting the information of an organization that is present in a software and hardware or data present on them is important. Here comes the point of Threat Intelligence, where it recognises the disruption or misleading of the service provide by these data present on the software and hardware in the form of accessing through network, code injection, data injection, hacking of the sites, controlling through physical access or by any means of taking control over the data. Simply, Threat intelligence is the set of data collected, assessed and applied regarding security threats, threat actors, exploits, vulnerabilities and compromise indicators. It is usually presented in either the form of strategic or tactical intelligence. Strategic intelligence involves broader and higher-level abstracts of data to identify threats and how the organization needs to react where Tactical intelligence involves collecting the network information, analyzing it, identifying the threats and responding. By using of this it makes cost effective to organization by reducing security incidents, which increases responsive time by finding solution in a least possible time. It also shows the security incidents, attacks and events. It provides decision support to the organization and possibly a strategic advantage. Threat intelligence also involves series of steps which make the data to be gone through several phases starting with collection, then planning, process, produce
Risk assessment and threat assessment should go hand-in-hand.The outcome of the risk assessment and threat assessment should provide recommendations that maximize the protection of confidentiality, integrity and availability while still providing functionality and usability. The purpose of a risk assessment is to ensure sensitive data and valuable assets are protected. An organization should take a hard look at who has access to sensitive data and if those accesses are required. The security audit should monitor the companies systems and users to detect illicit activity.The security audit should
The best way to address this issue is the use of a threat intelligence management platform. The “threat intelligence management platform” filters, gathers and analyzes data, and then delivers it in a standard format for inclusion in a variety of security systems and appliances (Comparing). Finally, it is important to remember that the organizations budget will play a major role in the choice of selecting threat intelligence services. The appropriate choice is to strive for consistency when interviewing potential service providers.
This article brings us into a world of an Information Security Analyst. The analyst must stay ahead of the different methods of hacking and also
Threat modeling is the process of optimizing an organizations’ security of their network by finding vulnerabilities in that system, and then deploying countermeasures to protect against those threats should they happen in the future. If a company wants to know what vulnerabilities they may have then threat modeling is an excellent way of determining these threats. An individual threat is when an event occurs that has a negative impact on an organization’s daily operations. (Rouse, 2006). These negative impacts can manifest themselves in many ways from damaging the reputation of that organization to interrupting the functions of that organization. These threats can be in the form of destruction or stealing sensitive data, cracking of weak passwords, malware, phishing, or other scams and frauds. The goal of this paper is to address how the organizations code of ethics and security policies apply, what specific security policies can be deployed, and to identify the impact of asset security standards and governance. I chose Northrop Grumman as the focus of my paper
Intelligence relates to mission command in a sense that it is the information system portion of the mission command. Intelligence is able to provide important information required for the mission. Intelligence has a number of personnel that plays key role in getting out the information. Their job in mission command is to inform commanders and other subordinates on activity of a mission and keep track of the enemy. It’s one of the very important factors in mission command. Mission command has other important factors such as fires, sustainment, movement and maneuver, and last protection. The relationship between them is that intelligence provides for each element. The information that is obtained affects each factor because they all affect the
Intelligence can have many meanings depending on how you use it, but it is a common mistake to mix up intelligence as synonymous with information. This is wrong as, information is not intelligence, which has caused the misuse of the phrase “collecting intelligence” instead of “collecting information.” Intelligence is a structure, a process and a product. In most police services, the intelligence unit or section is a recognized internal organization with people, skills, methods and an organizational structure. Although intelligence may be collected by and shared with intelligence agencies and bureaus, field operations generally collect information or data. The distinction between tactical and strategic intelligence is often misconstrued. Tactical
According to Army Sustainment Magazine, over the past 10 years sustainment unit training efforts have focused primarily on building and developing soldiers' tactical skills at the cost of their technical military occupational specialty (MOS) skills. This off-balance training focus and overdependence on contract support has resulted in a battle-hardened force of sustainment soldiers, many of whom lack technical proficiency because they have not been working in their MOSs. Currently we are facing a resource-constrained environment, funding for contracts is being significantly reduced along with several other resources, and soldiers are once again expected to perform their technical missions (Rettman, 2013, para. 5). This is problematic
Threat intelligence services can provide current information on potential attacks that are relevant to the organization's industry. The problem is that analysts often do not know what intelligence is actionable, much less the actions that they need to take.
As organizations reliance on technology continues to grow so has the amount of cyber attacks which occur compromising organizations information systems and networks. These cyber attacks can have drastic effect on organization financially including downtime or even regulatory fines. Due to this the need to be able to properly identify assets, their vulnerabilities and threats, and the risk they pose to the organization has become a must for ensuring the protection of organizations information systems and networks. This have gave way to the creation of threat modeling process to aid organizations beater identify and mitigate the risk to their organizations security.
This paper explains the need of a sophisticated Cyber Defense system in organizations and Government agencies and how this can be achieved by using Cyber Analytics.
Safety of information is the most valuable asset in any organization particular those who provide financial service to others. Threats can come from a variety of sources such as human threats, natural disasters and technical threats. By identifying the potential threats to the network, security measure can be taken to combat these threats, eliminate them or reduce the likelihood and impact if they should occur.
Almost all kind of large and small organizations might face increasing number of attacks into their network or intellectual property. This may lead to data disclosure, data destruction, and damage of organization’s reputation. There are numerous threats in the cyber space which might be capable of stealing, destroying or making use of out sensitive data for financial and non-financial gains. As the amount of computer, mobile and internet users increases, so does the number of exploiters.
This report presents the major findings of the research project Kasi – Future Information Security Trends (Kasi – tulevaisuuden tietoturvatrendit) conducted by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The project is a part of Tekes Safety and Security Research Program (Tekesin
Network security comprises of the procurements and strategies embraced by a network executive to anticipate and screen unapproved access, abuse, change, or disavowal of a computer network and network-open assets. Network security includes the approval of access to information in a network, which is controlled by the network chairman. As the computer network is increasing drastically, so are the threats to the computer network also. With the quick improvement of computer network, the network is defying a developing number of dangers. Hence, it is exceptionally paramount to evaluate the dangers for the network data framework. This paper draws information mining innovation focused around affiliation principles into the field of danger evaluation, exhibiting a network security hazard evaluation model focused around affiliation standards. The model mines information from history defenselessness database to run across affiliation tenets of vulnerabilities, and it is connected on danger evaluation of vulnerability.
Cyber security analyst help stop cyber attacks from occurring, they help businesses protect their networks from hackings, viruses, and cyber threats. They aid to keep our personal information private from hackers. Cyber security analyst is a growing field due to the number of cyber attacks and online threats. “Cyber security analyst’s main responsibility is to plan and lay out security procedures for the protection of organization’s computer systems and networks. With the daily increase in cyber threats, the job duties of a computer security analyst are always changing” (wright, 2010)