The Rise of AI in the world of Threat Intelligence

In this thrilling exploration, I’ll plunge into the shadows of cyber operations and unveil the dark art of threat intelligence. Discover how to hunt down malevolent forces in the cyber realm and sharpen your skills in the high stakes game of digital espionage.

Imagine a world where intelligence isn’t just a tool—it’s a superpower that shapes your daily life. Every time you interact with Alexa, Google, or Siri, you’re tapping into this incredible force. Now, let’s take it a step further into the digital battlefield. Get ready for a deep dive into the sinister world of Scattered Spider indicators and other crucial threats. The quest for uncovering the hidden dangers begins now—are you ready to find the evil lurking in the bytes?

We will distill this down to key aspects of intelligence used in cyber, how it should be segmented and then discuss the application of strategic, operational, and tactical uses. Let’s take the 5 phases of Intelligence - Planning, Collection, Processing, Analysis, Dissemination. We will compare and contrast a manual process of adversary attribution analysis vs with the latest in Generative AI and applying it to the latest threats seen. This has been very much a manual process and I can go through an example of adversary attribution in depth. Comparing this now with an AI lens - We can start using AI/Gen AI tools to speed up process/analyze efforts greatly! The analytic lens using people and AI become very important as this fusion is required to reduce the “confidently wrong” phenomenon happening in today’s GenAI tools but also I want to highlight its strengths for speed and processing at scale.

Threat Intelligence has been something that has been in my life for over 20 years every since I started doing security engineering in the early days. It’s become more important then ever but I noticed many are not educated on this topic as they should be. I think it’s important to clarify it’s needs, capabilities, and how it’s changing with the introduction of AI.

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