Looking at the distinctions between Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and cyber risk - both with similar elements with supportive properties, but often misunderstood. Offering definition to aid practitioners, auditors, regulators and boards.
Tag: Risk
Money Laundering and Cyber Crime
Challenges to the blending of Cyber/Fraud/AML spaces in financial services gives cybercrime more room to maneuver. Criminals find monetisation advantages in victim organisational separations, with innovative solutions based on careful observation and rapid growth in operational maturity. This post uncovers difficulties financial services encounter in cybercrime-monetisation.
On Responding to Complexity
Issues - regardless of scale - often acquire similar responses when the systems are complex. This post looks at components of complex system issue response and reasoning behind it.
Building with Fire
Some things are bent to suit. Some are broken in process. Some things just have to burn. The following are considerations for metaphorical implications.
Need-to-Know Versus Need-to-Share
At opposite ends of the intelligence spectrum, need-to-know (limited audiences) and need-to-share (expansive audiences) vie for dominance. Here we define these practices, associated concerns, and circumstances where one approach is likely preferable.
Taliban and Cyber Considerations
With the Taliban back in control in Afghanistan, and with the departing US forces having left behind a lot of equipment and hardware, the CTI community is keeping an eye on the inevitable shifts in cyber threats arising from or involving Afghanistan.
On Challenging Rationality
Whether rational, rationalized, emotional, irrational, or intuitive, our behaviours are signals to others about where we are operating from. Taking time to clarify your understanding of your internal mechanisms at play will significantly improve your messaging to the external world. Messaging as revealed by your behaviours and decisions.
Understanding Business Needs for CTI
Private-sector organisations have different response options available utilising CTI than governments or militaries. Learning what is important to the organisation affects what to look for when distilling and analysing. This post will help understand how to create CTI relevance for the business.
3 Surprising Building Blocks for OpRes
Developing operational resilience - an organisation's ability to continue functioning through failure - requires reconsidering what brings the effect of shock and volatility closer to zero. Looking to the relative resilience in place twenty or more years ago, the need for analogue solutions in digital spaces becomes apparent.
Authenticity at Scale
Conversations on authenticity in professional environments are becoming more common, recognising a need to address inauthenticities in business. The challenge is the degree of misinterpretation fostered, as considering certain factors reveal consistency requiring adjustment depending on scale. The Dark Knight's Joker will help demonstrate.
