Title
From Threat Data to Actionable Intelligence: An Exploratory Analysis of the Intelligence Cycle Implementation in Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing Platforms
Abstract
In the last couple of years, organizations have demonstrated an increasing willingness to share data, information and intelligence regarding emerging threats to collectively protect against today's sophisticated cyber attacks. Accordingly, several vendors started to implement software solutions that facilitate this exchange and appear under the name cyber threat intelligence sharing platforms. However, recent investigations have shown that these platforms differ significantly in their functional scope and often only provide threat data instead of the promised actionable intelligence. Moreover, it is unclear to what extent the platforms implement the expected intelligence cycle processes. In order to close this gap, we investigate the state-of-the-art in scientific literature and analyze the functional scope of nine threat intelligence sharing platforms with respect to the intelligence cycle. Our study provides a comprehensive list of software functions that should be implemented by cyber threat intelligence sharing platforms in order to support the intelligence cycle to generate actionable threat intelligence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3465481.3470048
ARES 2021: 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY AND SECURITY
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Threat Intelligence, Platforms, Intelligence Cycle, Functions, Literature Study, Case Study
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Clemens Sauerwein1134.66
Daniel Fischer201.01
Milena Rubsamen300.34
Guido Rosenberger400.34
Dirk Stelzer500.34
Ruth Breu600.68