Threat Intelligence Essentials: Which Customer Are You Serving?

This post outlines a framework for aligning cyber threat intelligence with three audiences—analysts, engineers, and security leaders—detailing their problems (alert validation and prioritization; scalable detection and vulnerability management; executive communication and risk narrative) and mapping CTI contributions such as reputation and ATT&CK context for analysts, structured enrichment and exploitation-in-the-wild data for engineers, and business-impact briefings and verification for leaders to deliver the right information to the right decision maker at the right time.