In an initiative to proactively defend against emerging cybersecurity threats, your company has started receiving updates from a threat intelligence service. As a security analyst tasked with enhancing the organization's defensive strategies, what is the most effective action to take when operationalizing this new intelligence?
Use the intelligence solely to inform the incident response team to plan and prepare for potential future attacks.
Subscribe to a variety of additional threat intelligence providers in order to cross-reference and verify the new intelligence.
Create a dedicated dashboard for real-time alerts that utilizes threat intelligence data to track potential incidents.
Update definitions for firewalls and intrusion prevention systems with indicators of compromise derived from the threat intelligence updates.
Updating security control definitions with the information from the threat feed is the most direct and effective way to operationalize new threat intelligence. This ensures that firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and other defensive measures can immediately recognize and block traffic or activities associated with known threats.
Setting up a dedicated dashboard for alerts may not necessarily incorporate the threat intelligence into active defense mechanisms. Subscribing to multiple threat intelligence providers without a strategy for implementation can lead to confusion and duplication of efforts. Limiting the use of the threat feed to informing incident response plans involves a more reactive, rather than proactive, approach to threat intelligence.
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