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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

Can You Prove an Attack Was Prevented?

Early warning is what threat intelligence is sold on, and prevention is the least verifiable claim in security — the evi...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

Who Sells Threat Intelligence

Four quite different businesses use the same phrase, which is most of why the market is confusing. A map of the categori...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

What a Threat Actor Name Buys You

Reporting names adversaries with real confidence — APT29, Lazarus, Sandworm — and it is worth asking how much a name act...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

From Feed to Decision

Buying a threat feed is the easy part. We work through the filtering that free public data already does to a scanner rep...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

What Threat Intelligence Actually Is

380,235 vulnerabilities have been published. 1,670 are confirmed to be exploited in the wild — about one in 228. Telling...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

What "Known Exploited" Actually Means

There is a free, public list of the software flaws attackers are genuinely using, and its shape is not what the phrase s...

Cyber Team

Pub. 12 Aug