The threat landscape means the entire scope of potential and recognized cybersecurity threats affecting user groups, organizations, specific industries, or a particular time. As new cyber threats emerge daily, the threat landscape changes accordingly.
In previous blog posts we’ve discussed the value of a data-driven approach to security operations. In this post, we’d like to reflect and take a closer look at what that approach means to the automation of SOC (Security Operations Center) workflows and how it has influenced the product and design decisions of ThreatQ and ThreatQ TDR Orchestrator.
We are excited to announce Quadrant Knowledge Solutions has named CrowdStrike as a 2022 technology leader in the SPARK Matrix analysis of the global Digital Threat Intelligence Management market. Among all 28 vendors in the report, CrowdStrike received the highest score in the Technology Excellence category. The SPARK Matrix evaluates top vendors in the Digital Threat Intelligence Management space on a variety of criteria and groups them into Leaders, Challengers and Aspirants.
Today’s escalating threat landscape means that security operations teams face a multitude of challenges. This can make it challenging for them to keep pace with the sheer scale of threats, tactics and techniques that bad actors frequently use. When you consider recent ransomware attack statistics, it is easy to see that cybercrime has intensified, with a record-breaking number of threats of increasing severity taking place year-on-year.
It may surprise you to learn that new research by CompTIA finds only 30% of the cyber workforce is in the 19-34 age group, with 52% between 35 and 54.
Professionals working in cyber threat intelligence (CTI) overwhelmingly enjoy their jobs; over 66%, according to a limited survey of CTI professionals. They enjoy playing detective, investigator, researcher, analyzer, and communicator. What do they not love about the job? Chasing down bits and pieces of information manually through tons of different interfaces. Wrangling a time-intensive monstrosity of various files, web pages, and inconsistent formats, then merging them (ungracefully).
