Tech Center Threat Intelligence
Dark Reading's Threat Intelligence Tech Center is your source for information, best practices, and insight on collecting and analyzing data on emerging cybersecurity threats. Written for those who track and evaluate new vulnerabilities and exploits, the Threat Intelligence Tech Center is designed to provide in-depth news and perspective on the process of detecting and analyzing new threats as well as on strategies for defending against them.
Featured Commentary
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Tim WilsonFive Questions To Ask When Choosing A Threat Intelligence Service
Threat intelligence services are becoming an essential weapon in the enterprise security arsenal. Do you know how to choose one?
News
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LulzSec Hackers Get Prison Time in U.K. For Cyberattacks
Prison time marks the end of a prominent chapter in hacktivist history, one security researcher says
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Threat Nuevo: Latin America, Caribbean Cybercrime On The Rise
Cybercriminals in the region have built their own tools and learned from their predecessors in other regions, says Trend Micro report in cooperation with Organization of American States (OAS)
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Microsoft: Worms And Rogue AV Dying, Web Threats Thriving
Conficker finally flickering out, newest edition of Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report (SIR) shows
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NSA Director: Information-Sharing Critical To U.S. Cybersecurity
NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander discusses challenges to protecting U.S. interests in cyberspace
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Honeypot Stings Attackers With Counterattacks
Researchers test the controversial concept of hacking back and gathering intelligence on attackers
More Stories
- Medical Industry Under Attack By Chinese Hackers
- DDoS, Malware Attacks Cost Victims Thousands Of Dollars A Day
- Using Intelligence Against Companies That Benefit From Cyberspionage
- 'Time Bomb' Attack Out Of China Defused
- Researchers Solicit Sinkhole-Sharing Among Researchers
By The Numbers
While almost a third of large companies with revenues of $100 million or more spend at least 50 hours a month on identifying the attack characteristics of malware, the majority spend far less time. While having the specialized talent to conduct such research is desirable, it's also less efficient and shows a distrust of current antivirus software and other defensive technologies.
Source: CounterTack's "A Cyber-readiness Reality Check" report
Commentary
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Five Questions To Ask When Choosing A Threat Intelligence Service
By Tim Wilson
Threat intelligence services are becoming an essential weapon in the enterprise security arsenal. Do you know how to choose one?
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Who Supplies CyberBunker?
The hosting company behind CyberBunker, the company allegedly behind the DDOS attacks on Spamhaus, connects to the Internet through other providers. Perhaps the only way to pressure those responsible for the attacks is to put pressure on the upstream providers
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You've Been Hacked, But For How Long?
One of the big themes at the recent RSA Conference was awareness of threats already inside the network. The way you learn about these threats and lower your ‘Mean Time To Know’ (MTTW) about an intrusion is with profile-based network monitoring
Around the Web
Dark Reading Reports
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Evaluating And Choosing Threat Intelligence Tools
Effective enterprise security requires the ability to monitor and compare anomalous behavior over time, connecting the dots among multiple events. Given the sophistication and volume of the attacks seen today, this is no small task. Indeed, it may be bigger than most organizations can handle. Threat intelligence tools and services can help organizations collect and make sense of the disparate data that can shine a light on events leading up to an attack. In this report, we look at the types of products available and offer recommendations on how to evaluate and select them.
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Threat Intelligence: What You Really Need To Know
If there was ever a time when threat intelligence could be put on autopilot, that time is over. With the increase in advanced, multidimensional threats, organizations can no longer depend solely on existing gateway tools to weed out nefarious activity. More and more organizations are considering development of an in-house threat intelligence program, dedicating staff and other resources to deep inspection and correlation of network and application data and activity. In this report, we will examine the drivers for implementing an in-house threat intelligence program, the issues around staffing and costs, and the tools necessary to do the job effectively.
Whitepapers
- IBM Analytic Answers for Retail Purchase Analysis and Offer Targeting
- Crime Prediction and Prevention: A Safer Public through Advanced Analytics
- Government Analytics: Set Goals, Drive Accountability and Improve Outcomes
- Business Analytics for Midsize Businesses: Challenges and Benefits
- 2012 IBM Chief Information Security Officer Assessment
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- The Future Of Web Authentication: Password technology is out of steam. We need safer ways to prove who's who online.
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