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?
Update definitions for firewalls and intrusion prevention systems with indicators of compromise derived from the threat intelligence updates.
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.
Use the intelligence solely to inform the incident response team to plan and prepare for potential future attacks.
Updating security control definitions with information from the threat feed immediately turns raw intelligence into preventive controls. By loading new indicators of compromise into firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and similar technologies, the organization can automatically detect or block activity associated with the identified threats. Creating dashboards, adding more feeds without a plan, or reserving the data only for incident response are useful but do not embed the intelligence directly into real-time defenses.
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