Threat intelligence is information and data which cybersecurity professionals use to prepare for, as well as to detect and protect organizations and end users from cyber attacks carried out by malicious threat actors.

Actionable threat data pertaining to an organization’s information systems, networks, or digital assets is intended to inform cybersecurity and threat teams about potential risks and existing or emerging threats.  As cybercriminals continue to grow more sophisticated in their attack tactics, gathering and leveraging threat data is a critical element to protecting your infrastructure and assets against cyber attacks and building a proactive, rather than reactive, cyber defense strategy.

Crowdsourced Security for Web Threat Intelligence

Cybersecurity, Network Security

If we have a thousand monkeys typing away on a thousand typewriters, surely they can produce great works of literature – or so goes the popular adaptation of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. But in the context of information security, a similar idea has been taking shape in past few years. Crowdsourced security, leveraging on input from a host of geographically dispersed systems, is slowly gaining ground as a means to provide actionable threat intelligence for both the public and private sectors.