In the current climate, we are tackling the challenge of raising awareness at an industry level, highlighting the advantages of threat intelligence sharing: a practical and collaborative way to enhance cybersecurity awareness across industries and gain a tactical advantage in the evolving threat landscape.
By sharing insights gathered through daily activities with communities beyond the borders of their business, and learning from others in those communities, SOC teams and security analysts are empowered to actively strengthen cybersecurity practices within their organizations. This can include sharing and learning from information collected after cyber incidents, as defenders gain valuable experience and insights that can give other teams a tactical advantage. This effectively converts threat information into actionable threat intelligence for the industry as a whole.
Building communities within industries allows organizations to pool resources, enabling SOC teams and security analysts to collaborate more effectively on threat hunting, intelligence gathering, and threat profiling. This is where a threat intelligence platform can help to aggregate all the information into one place. By working smarter, not harder, teams can present a united front, matching the scale of today’s cyber threats.
Ultimately, sharing threat intelligence between organizations helps teams learn from possible attackers or attack methodology – even those they haven’t directly experienced themselves. It quickly raises wider awareness of emerging threats and helps collaboratively develop strategies to prevent future attacks. This proactive approach strengthens the cybersecurity posture not only within individual organizations but also across their supply chains and sector.
In the ultra-connected digital landscape, the future of cybersecurity will increasingly rely on the power of collective intelligence to protect not just individual businesses, but entire industries.