CTEM: The Next Frontier In Cybersecurity
techradar.pro, Friday, September 6th, 2024
Understanding the cybercrime ecosystem has never been more important than in 2024. Ransomware attacks and data breaches continue to proliferate, and it's imperative that executives understand what's driving the increase and more importantly how to prevent oneself from becoming a victim.
Cyber threat intelligence has historically focused on identifying major cybercrime groups and state actors (dubbed 'Advanced Persistent Threats' or 'APTs'). However the vast majority of breaches are not caused by these highly sophisticated actors.
Instead, organizations are breached by relatively low-sophistication actors that often operate on social media sites or dark web forums. For this reason, cyber threat intelligence has gotten a bad reputation for 'low actionability.' If you concentrate all of your efforts on actors and tactics that only perpetrate a tiny proportion of attacks, it isn't going to be all that useful to the average company.