CISOs on how to improve cyberthreat intelligence programs

The more things change, the more they stay the same — even when it comes to cyberthreat intelligence.

Two years ago, TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group conducted research into how organizations were managing their cyberthreat intelligence programs. We surveyed 380 cybersecurity professionals involved with or knowledgeable in this area.

When asked to identify their top cyberthreat intelligence challenges, survey respondents pointed to the following issues:

• Overly technical threat intelligence reports. This a problem because threat intelligence requirements should start by identifying risks to critical business assets, such as regulated data, intellectual property or key operational technologies used in areas like manufacturing, energy production or patient care. To gather and analyze the right data, threat intelligence analysts then need business input and continuous feedback. Overly technical reports that businesspeople can’t understand are antithetical to building this necessary…