In recent years, cyberattacks have grown in both volume and sophistication. As the attack surface keeps increasing, more organizations are unable to defend themselves against cyber threats on their own.
Information sharing and collaboration is a more effective approach to cybersecurity than individual efforts. In this regard, threat intelligence sharing has emerged as a powerful strategy that leverages collective knowledge for the benefit of multiple enterprises.
Each year, more companies are investing in threat intelligence capabilities to identify any major business risk. 90% of companies plan to invest more in threat intelligence in 2025. Besides, 85% of companies are already running advanced threat intelligence programs.
In this blog, learn how sharing threat intelligence is key to strengthening your cybersecurity posture.
How threat intelligence sharing improves the cybersecurity posture
With threat intelligence sharing, enterprises can combine their individual resources and experiences for an improved cybersecurity posture. Here’s how it benefits enterprises:
1. Actionable intelligence on real-time threats
Organizations can now share real-time updates and actionable intelligence on emerging threats through effective collaboration. With these timely updates, collaborating enterprises can now proactively respond to cyber threats in their environment. For instance, they can take timely action on:
2. Access to diverse expertise in cybersecurity
Threat intelligence sharing combines the diverse perspectives and expertise of multiple companies across industries and regions. This collective intelligence is a valuable addition to the existing pool of cybersecurity expertise.
By interacting with other participants, organizations can gain powerful insights on how to combat cyberattacks and new threats. Every participant brings their own experience and learning from cyber incidents, thus helping others improve their security measures.
3. Faster detection of threats
By sharing inputs on threat intelligence, organizations are better prepared to identify and mitigate serious threats. Security professionals now have detailed insights into their enterprise network’s threat patterns and compromise indicators.
Besides detecting threats, organizations can also share their strategies and best practices for mitigating security threats. By collaboration, they have the opportunity to learn from each other’s experience and to leverage their combined intelligence capabilities.
4. Building a trusted and supportive environment
Threat intelligence sharing helps in building an environment of mutual trust and support among the participating companies. This mutual trust also contributes to more intelligent sharing along with tips and best practices on how to improve their overall security posture.
Participants can also contribute their insights to cybersecurity communities and online forums for the benefit of other enterprises.
Best practices in threat intelligence sharing
How can organizations share their threat intelligence? Here are some best practices:
1. Define your purpose for threat intelligence sharing in line with your business goals.
2. Collect and analyze raw data related to threats from both internal and external data sources.
3. Standardize the collected data using a data format that is easy to compare and analyze.
4. Remove any redundant or irrelevant threat data.
5. Analyze your clean, high-quality data to spot anomalies or patterns indicating a potential threat.
6. Share your threat intelligence insights with actionable steps to all your business departments.
Conclusion
Through collaborative threat intelligence sharing, organizations can improve their security posture and make optimum use of their available resources. This collaborative effort can also help organizations optimize their IT budgets for the purpose of cybersecurity.
At Lisianthus Tech, we leverage years of combined expertise in the cybersecurity domain to help our customers stay ahead of emerging threats and potential attacks. Our comprehensive offerings include security assessments, audits, consulting, and training services. Connect with us today to fortify your defenses.