TIPs – an overview
As seen in the previous chapters, threat intelligence is not just an output product but a process that converts threat data to actionable information used to support business decisions and build a security shield to protect against traditional and modern cyber threats. The process of conducting threat intelligence requires time, energy, and human resources at each step of the cycle. It can become challenging to handle the entire security intelligence process manually. For example, fetching data in a structured threat information expression (STIX) format from one system and a JSON or XML format from another system before parsing, correlating, and analyzing it and sharing the analytic output with teams can be a long and tedious process. Hence, the need for TIPs to automate the process.
A TIP is a tool, software, or technology that automates threat intelligence by aggregating, correlating, analyzing, and sharing threat intelligence information. In most cases...
