C2 Corner: The Tactician and the Strategist in Cyber Threat Intelligence

This article argues that in cyber threat intelligence, AI excels at precise, scalable, and repeatable tasks (triage, clustering, enrichment), while human analysts provide strategic context and governance to navigate shifting adversary tactics and business risk. It advocates a generalist mindset to connect technical findings to business decisions, and proposes operationalizing threat intel by moving enrichment and prioritization earlier in the data pipeline to cut noise and costs. The piece introduces Abstract Security’s Abstract Intel Gallery (AIG) as a means to “shift detections left,” make threat intel actionable, and align AI-driven tactics with human-led strategy.