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Leveraging threat intelligence

Leveraging threat intelligence

From the course: Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate (200-201) Cert Prep: 1 Security Concepts

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Leveraging threat intelligence

- [Presenter] Threat actors use a variety of ways to launch attacks to gain access into our systems. Cyber threat intelligence helps level the playing field as it uses previous threat knowledge and reputation to proactively block malicious attacks on a network. Today, we have many organizations that offer detailed threat information that is vital to cyber security specialist. We use security blogs and podcasts that help professionals understand and mitigate emerging threats. For example, here I'm at sans.org for training and resources. You can take a look at their focus areas and even get involved. FireEye offers emerging threat information and intelligent reports. FireEye owns Mandiant so we'll see the reports listed under Mandiant. I signed up and downloaded the report that outlined cyber intelligence. And you can do the same and take a look at it. But really what I wanted to show you is that there's a…

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