Security News > 2021 > March > Challenges and benefits of using threat data feeds

Threat data feeds can help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, according to a report from the Ponemon Institute.

As cyberthreats proliferate, many organizations are using threat feeds with insights from domain name system data to help IT security teams better understand threats and block malicious activity.

79% of the more than 1,000 security professionals participating in the study said threat data feeds were essential to their organization's ability to achieve a strong cybersecurity posture, and 55% rate the quality of their threat feeds' ability to pinpoint cyberthreats as very high.

Study participants said threat data feeds offer a number of benefits: they add unique data to better inform security, increase preventive blocking to ensure a better defence, reduce the mean time to detect and remediate an attack, and reduce the time spent researching false positives.

56% of respondents also said threat feeds deliver data that is often too voluminous and/or complex to provide timely and actionable intelligence.

On average, respondents said 38% of these cyberattacks were not stopped because security teams lacked timely and actionable data from their data feeds.

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