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How the risk team uses intelligence

How the risk team uses intelligence

From the course: Learning Threat Intelligence

How the risk team uses intelligence

- That your risk team needs cyber threat intelligence is obvious, and yet this team is often overlooked. Why? Because they might not sit within cybersecurity or because cybersecurity itself is all about risk mitigation. So first, let's think about how you assess risk, how the risk team is going to use that intelligence, what other teams can benefit, and then what type of intelligence is useful to this particular team. Risk is often described as the combination of the likelihood that something will happen, whether or not you are vulnerable to that thing happening, and then the impact of that thing happening. So if we think about that from a cybersecurity perspective, a cybersecurity risk we might be considering is ransomware. How likely is it that you will be targeted? Are there ransomware groups targeting organizations like yours right now in your industry with your financial turnover? That is the threat intelligence you…

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