Collaboration Is Key: How To Make Threat Intelligence Work For Your Organization
Security Boulevard, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Recent cyberattacks on retailers in the UK and the U.S. are now shifting to target the financial sector, with news on breaches reaching headlines almost daily. These stories track how today's threat actors operate: they are strategic, pivot quickly, exploit weak links and are highly opportunistic.
This opportunism means that if threat actors discover an unlocked door in one business within an industry, they will try every door within that industry to find a common weakness. As shrewd businessmen, they are more likely to target industries rich in customer data and personally identifiable information (PII) and with large, complex supply chains, such as retail and finance.
Industry-specific weaknesses and single points of failure within a supply chain are cybersecurity soft spots that regulations such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) within the financial sector and the NIS2 Directive aim to address directly: Both emphasizing structured information flows, sector-level cooperation and operational resilience. One valuable tool for meeting these requirements and increasing pro-activity is through the tactic of threat intelligence sharing.