Maturing the cyber threat intelligence program
Summary: Cisco Talos outlines the Cyber Threat Intelligence Capability Maturity Model (CTI-CMM), which lists 11 domains where threat intelligence can improve decision-making and defines four maturity levels from CTI0 (Pre-Foundational) through CTI3 (Leading). The model traces its lineage to the U.S. Department of Defense's 1980s capability maturity work, the energy industry's C2M2 published in 2012, and a 2012 Verisign paper on threat intelligence maturity.
Key Takeaway: Talos states plainly that reaching the highest CTI maturity level is not always a practical goal, and that in a world of finite resources, "good enough" intelligence delivered to teams that can use it well may beat the best intelligence delivered to teams without the capacity to act on it.
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