Turn real adversary behaviors (TTPs) into actionable detection
Organizations are struggling to keep up with an evolving threat landscape and security teams are increasingly burdened with the pressure to build an effective cyber defense against sophisticated attacks.
Attackers have become faster and more sophisticated, regularly outpacing security teams and leaving them vulnerable to breaches. An inability to keep up with adversaries poses significant risks to your organization.
Threat intelligence does offer adversary details and critical information but has historically been limited to IOCs and known threats. This has left security teams with an incomplete and often outdated idea of what they need to be defending against.
But what if threat intelligence went beyond the basics, offering near real-time insight into adversaries’ behavior and methods and could be applied in organizations’ environments and SIEMs?
Recent advancements in threat intelligence have been able to provide TTP-level intelligence on threat actor procedures and behavior – even going as deep as showing specific command line scripts being used in the wild. Despite this being valuable intel, security teams haven’t been able to effectively operationalize the intelligence. Some of the main hurdles include a lack of necessary time, resources, and expertise to accurately interpret and apply the threat data along with the complexity of trying to adapt the intelligence into actionable security controls with their processes and tools. These challenges create a bottleneck in cybersecurity engineering, impacting the speed and efficacy of the organization’s defensive measures.
That’s where CardinalOps’ TI-Ops comes in.
With CardinalOps, security teams are able to translate TTP-level threat intelligence into actionable detection rules to proactively strengthen their cyber defense with near real-time adversary intelligence.
Threat Intelligence Operationalization (TI-Ops for short) leverages threat and adversary intelligence, such as TTP-based reports from CrowdStrike, Google/Mandiant Threat Intelligence, and Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence, to understand where your current threat coverage stands while also providing recommendations of deployment-ready rules to mitigate areas where gaps exist.
The CardinalOps platform also leverages a catalog of open-source intelligence (OSINT) that aggregates public reports and articles with the latest threat intelligence that can be operationalized into detection insights and content for your unique environment.
Build a proactive, threat-informed defense with actionable threat intelligence that keeps pace with attacker behavior and strengthens your organization’s defense against the threats that matter most.
So how does TI-Ops work?
TI-Ops is a capability within the CardinalOps platform that is powered by AI and automation to convert adversary behaviors (TTPs) into actionable insight and detections that can be deployed directly into your existing SIEM.
TI-Ops operationalizes adversary intelligence by extracting atomic TTPs from threat intelligence reports to understand a threat’s severity and relevance in your environment. These TTPs are then mapped to the associated tactics and techniques of the MITRE ATT&CK framework to show visibility into your current detection coverage and health. What’s more, a set of customized and applicable detections based on this adversary intelligence are then provided to you that have been pre-tuned for noise and are ready for testing and deployment.
Benefits of Threat Intelligence Operationalization
Operationalizing adversary intelligence enables security teams to be able to build detections and a defense based on real attacker behaviors and TTPs. Security controls based on this level of intelligence moves beyond best practices and into a more advanced and persistent level of security
By utilizing AI and automation, CardinalOps TI-Ops requires no additional work or resources from your internal teams. Instead, you are able to capitalize on near real-time adversary intelligence and operationalize it in your existing tools with unmatched speed and expertise to stay ahead of threats and strengthen your cyber defense.
Interested in learning more about TI-Ops? Check out a live demo of the capabilities with our team to see it in action.