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Top Five Ways Threat Intelligence Solutions Help Your Business

Author: Rick Cooper
by Rick Cooper
Posted: Nov 23, 2018

As a business, it is crucial for you to look out for threats and potential dangers that lurk just outside the perimeter of your cyber defenses. Threat Intelligence, also known as cyber intelligence, is an additional layer of protection that has the ability to scan and predict potential threats before they can even manifest the business.

Several organizations are opting to adopt threat intelligence solutions as a part of an effective IT strategy to size up the anticipated threats and efficiently combat any losses. According to Markets and markets, a study of the entire market revealed that it is estimated to reach a whopping 8.94 billion USD by 2022.

Due to financial constraints, it is found that comprehensive cybersecurity solutions are not much adopted by small and medium-sized enterprises. However, failure to adopt these services increases the changes of cyber-attacks such as DoS and DDoS attacks, phishing, zero-day attacks, advanced persistent threats (APTs), botnets and many others. Threat Intelligence Solutions helps organizations understand the risk associated with these types of cyber attacks. Threat Intelligence Solutions provide alerts regarding possible damages. Enterprises can get a detailed information from various sources latest threat vectors. As the potential attack sources can be identified well in advance, a business can take precautionary steps in safeguarding IT assets from cyber attacks.

In 2018, Large size enterprises account for the largest share of the threat intelligence market. Threat Intelligence Solutions are getting increasingly popular because of its ability to help organizations get real-time alerts, daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly threat reports when needed.

If you are still skeptical on why exactly you need to enlist the services of a threat intelligence company for your business, read on to know the five ways threat intel has proved beneficial for the organization:

  1. 1. Threat Intelligence can aid in identifying information that was leaked from within the organization to the outside. By identifying data leakage such as confidential information, username & passwords, email content, and more, it helps cut down these malicious users at the root and enhance security.

  2. 2. The advanced tools and methods employed by threat Intelligence companies helps them preemptively identify someone who wants to harm the organization or might have already published it on the Internet.
  3. 3. Threat Intelligence can increase the visibility of emerging threats that could potentially arise in the near future. They achieve this with the help of simple manual searches conducted through an analyst on the CTI platform.
  4. 4.Brand security is one major aspect that threat intel could secure and it does this by protecting the brand identity through recognizing fake websites and social media pages, fake applications, or fraudulent client manipulation.
  5. 5. The threat intelligence companies also highlight exploitable data – which means they identify vulnerabilities and gaps in the organization's systems, such as loopholes in technology and updates, codes and unencrypted data crucial to the organization.
Suma Soft provides comprehensive Threat Intelligence Solutions to help businesses get a detailed information regarding possible cyber attacks.Our Threat Intelligence Solutions provide actionable intelligence and real time alerts to mitigate data breaches. For more details, write to us at info@sumasoft.com.

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