Security News > 2020 > September > We Need Better Classification of Threat Intelligence
Some intelligence services focus their efforts on identifying threat actor groups and attack methods, informing their customers whether they are targeted or not.
Some terms are beginning to emerge to better define intelligence offerings, with the most prominent one being Digital Risk Protection, or DPO. While it is used by many vendors to describe services designed to identify external threats, it does often time seem to include the traditional "Threat intelligence" as part of the vendor's offering, such as malware IOCs, blurring the lines between the two terms.
Certain vendors have also adopted the term "External threat intelligence" to describe their service, while others went for a more descriptive tagline of what the threat intelligence offering includes.
The threat intelligence space definitely needs clearer terms.
In 2019, Idan received a "Legends of Fraud" award for his role in creating one of the world's first fraud intelligence services, which monitored the Dark Web on behalf of financial institutions worldwide, as part of his work as Head of Cyber Intelligence at RSA, The Security Division of EMC..