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Managing threat indicators

Managing threat indicators

From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 3 Security Architecture and Engineering

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Managing threat indicators

- [Instructor] Threat information management tools simplify the processing of threat information. One of the most important elements of threat data are threat indicators. These are pieces of information that make it possible to describe or identify a threat. For example, threat indicators might include IP addresses, malicious files signatures, communications patterns, or other identifiers that analysts can use to identify a threat actor. Threat information is only useful if we're able to share it among collaborators. We'll talk more about threat information sharing techniques in the next video, but for now let's focus on mechanisms. If I detect a threat on my network, and I want to tell other like-minded security folks about that threat, how do I do so? And how can I do it in an automated fashion? If we don't all speak the same language, that information sharing becomes difficult. Fortunately, we have several frameworks at…

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