Types of intelligence
Before going too deep, we need to cover the main types of threat intelligence available today.
Strategic threat intelligence is a high-level concept of intelligence that covers an actor's motivations and intentions and potentially their capabilities. It will not get into the low-level details of how something is accomplished. Instead, this intelligence is the why behind the campaigns that threat actors execute on their victims.
This type of intelligence is great for ingestion at the managerial and leadership levels. A technical background is not typically required, yet it can still easily be correlated with the organizational priorities at large.
Operational threat intelligence is a context-rich version of intelligence that contains detailed information on things such as forensic analysis of toolsets and an adversary's known tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). This intelligence is the how and what of a threat actor's campaign....