Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

Transforming Threat Data into Strategic Action

In today’s threat landscape, the ability to operationalize threat intelligence is crucial for any organization. By seamlessly integrating with both open-source and industry-leading threat intelligence providers (like CrowdStrike), Nagomi empowers your security teams to turn raw threat data into actionable insights. Our platform continuously analyzes exploited techniques and vulnerabilities from real-world breaches and maps these findings to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This enables organizations to assess their readiness and evaluate the effectiveness of existing security controls against identified threats.

Steps to Operationalize Threat Intelligence

Step One: Create a Custom Threat Profile

Nagomi’s platform creates custom threat profiles through a comprehensive approach that includes in-depth assessments of current security postures, gathering threat intelligence relevant to the industry, prioritizing risks based on likelihood and impact, and developing tailored mitigation strategies. Emphasizing continuous monitoring and updates, Nagomi ensures organizations remain resilient against evolving threats, empowering them to proactively defend their assets.

Step Two: Identify Gaps in Coverage

Nagomi helps close these gaps by providing visibility into tool performance, identifying misconfigurations, and recommending enhancements. The platform’s ability to validate security controls ensures that all tools are configured optimally to leverage incoming CTI.

Step Three: Understand Exceptions

Nagomi provides flexibility for handling such exceptions. The platform can help create alternative workflows and compensating controls that ensure critical systems are protected, even when standard security practices can’t be applied.

Step Four: Separate Noise From Signal

Nagomi enables teams to customize CTI feeds to their environment, helping them focus on the most relevant threats and reduce noise. By continuously refining threat feeds, security teams can more effectively separate noise from actionable intelligence.

Step Five: Automate & Streamline Workflows

Nagomi’s platform provides automation capabilities that streamline workflows, such as automating the ingestion of CTI feeds and correlating alerts with relevant intelligence. This helps ensure that critical threats are addressed immediately while reducing the operational burden on security teams.

Step Six: Continual Improvement & Adaptation

Nagomi’s continuous security validation tools ensure that your defenses are always up-to-date and that new intelligence is integrated seamlessly into your security stack. By conducting regular assessments, Nagomi helps identify areas of improvement and ensures that the security posture evolves alongside emerging threats

Key Benefits With Nagomi

Proactive Defense: Minimize Mean Time to Prevent (MTP)

Nagomi focuses on reducing MTP by quickly understanding and enhancing your defenses against emerging threats. With each specific threat scenario, we empower you to efficiently gauge how effectively your organization can respond.

Contextualized Threat Assessment: Real-Time Answers

Rapidly address senior stakeholders’ concerns about your exposure and readiness to specific threats. When peers in your industry, geolocation or of your size face breaches, the Nagomi platform helps you assess:

1. Relevance: Is this threat applicable to my organization?
2. Technique Assessment: Is my defensive capabilities configuration aligned with the threats TTPs?
3. Attack Surface Vulnerability Exposure: Are my most critical assets exposed to any critical vulnerabilities? 
4. Action Planning: Where do we need to take immediate action?

Enhance Red Team Efficiency: Targeted Operations

Empower your red teams with comprehensive security data correlation. Nagomi enables them to:

• Prioritize high-risk areas.
• Validate security controls.
• Provide actionable feedback on exploitable vulnerabilities and threat scenarios.

This targeted approach transforms red team efforts from isolated tests into strategic operations, enhancing your overall security posture.

Attack Path Mapping: Visualizing Potential Threats

Utilize attack path mapping to visualize how adversaries might exploit vulnerabilities within your organization. By leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework, you can identify gaps in your defenses and implement effective remediation strategies.

Contextual Vulnerability Prioritization: Risk-Based Evaluation

Not all vulnerabilities pose equal risks. Nagomi’s context-driven approach allows security teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on:

• Relevance to your threat landscape.
• Existing security controls.
• Critical assets in your attack surface.
• Business objectives.

This optimization of remediation efforts ensures that your critical assets remain secure.

Operationalizing MITRE ATT&CK: A Threat-Informed Strategy

Shift from compliance-driven assessments to a threat-informed approach using the MITRE ATT&CK maturity framework. This perspective helps you understand how adversaries leverage TTPs, enhancing your preparedness against real-world threats and facilitating the development of effective compensating controls.

Continuous Improvement in Security Operations: Bridging Gaps with MITRE

By mapping your security capabilities to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, you can identify both strong coverage areas and existing gaps in your preventive strategies. Using MITRE ATT&CK as a common language for prioritization ensures consistent data and communication across your organization.

Actionable Threat-Informed Remediation: Strategic Recommendations

Through continuous analysis of threat data, Nagomi provides strategic recommendations to optimize your security program, refine policies, and strengthen defenses against evolving threats.

Addressing these challenges requires a strategic approach to operationalizing threat intelligence, including clear objectives, stakeholder engagement, investment in technology and human resources, process optimization, and a commitment to continuous improvement and adaptation to the evolving threat landscape.

Nagomi’s Threats in the News Feature

Nagomi’s new “Threats in the News” feature is transforming the way cybersecurity teams manage and respond to emerging threats. It filters through a vast array of cybersecurity news to identify the most relevant threats for your organization. By creating a tailored threat profile for each individual customer, Nagomi highlights only the most pertinent campaigns and threat actors, delivering relevant news information and mapping it directly to defensive controls.

Beyond individual threat assessment, “Threats in the News” contributes to a comprehensive threat intelligence strategy. It helps security leaders craft compelling risk narratives for executives while equipping their teams with contextual insights needed for effective action. Additionally, it tracks attack trends, highlights gaps in MITRE ATT&CK coverage, and delivers targeted defensive plans for each threat actor or campaign, empowering security teams to respond efficiently.