Proper management of threat data is critical in today’s security operations and modern SOCs. The knowledge of threats, their priority in our environment, their management, and the ability to analyze them, will give us anticipatory capabilities we wouldn’t have without this management.

Last week, we announced v5 of the ThreatQ platform with capabilities needed today to support the security operations center (SOC) of the future. SOCs have been maturing and evolving into detection and response organizations, a transformation that Gartner anticipated back in 2013 and deemed a requirement for this decade. I’m proud that ThreatQuotient has consistently been at the forefront of innovating and delivering what the SOC of the future needs.

In a previous blog I reviewed the foundational use case for a TIP, which is threat intelligence management—the practice of aggregating, analyzing, enriching and de-duplicating internal and external threat data in order to understand threats to your environment and share that data with a range of systems and users. However, one of the unique benefits of the ThreatQ Platform and where organizations are deriving additional business value, is that it also allows you to address other use cases.

With thousands of tools and technologies to choose from, navigating through cybersecurity categories and technologies to find a solution that meets your organization’s needs can be challenging. The annual Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards program helps you solve that problem by aiming to perform the most comprehensive evaluation of cybersecurity companies and solutions on the market today and recognizing the leaders.

A successful breach can do serious damage to a business, costing a company millions of dollars in lost revenue, exposed intellectual property, downtime, reputation loss and fines. The right practices can help keep a company safe — but only if they know what threats to look for, and where their network is weakest. Cyber threat intelligence is the process through which companies identify weaknesses in their own networks.

As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021, this week’s theme, Cybersecurity First, is all about making security a priority. To do this, many security operations teams are leaning into threat intelligence to understand specifically where and how to focus their efforts to better protect their organizations.