Government IT and security teams are doing their best to establish situational awareness by combining raw threat feeds with existing security information and event management (SIEM) and log management tools. However, this approach fails to achieve this objective and ultimately drives up alert fatigue for an already overwhelmed staff. Eliminating alert fatigue and accelerating situational awareness requires prioritized, contextually relevant, real-time threat intelligence that seamlessly integrates with existing tools and practices. A threat intelligence platform (TIP) facilitates this integration. The result is the optimization of limited resources.

Government agencies are facing an ever-expanding threat landscape driven by two factors. First, the abundance of legacy IT provides a broad target for malicious actors due to the persistence of unpatched, unprotected and even unsupported operating systems and applications. Second, government agencies are moving to the cloud and adopting mobile and Internet of Things (IoT)7 devices at an accelerating rate. These technologies are critical to delivering new levels of government service and constituent responsiveness, but at the same time, they significantly increase the government agency attack surface. Maintaining current visibility into the entire infrastructure and continually re-evaluating and reprioritizing threat intelligence helps government agencies protect an expanding digital world against a growing threat landscape."