External Threat Intelligence Makes Your Cybersecurity Stronger

Navigating the global cyber threat landscape

External threat intelligence helps you prepare your organisation for the cyber threats that come from outside. It is a crucial part of cybersecurity: by gathering and analysing information from a wide range of external sources, you gain insight into the broader threat landscape and can prepare for potential attacks.

Key components of external threat intelligence

• Data sources: external threat intelligence collects data from many sources, including open-source intelligence (OSINT), dark web monitoring, threat data feeds and industry reports. They provide valuable information about emerging threats, vulnerabilities and adversary tactics.
• Threat actor profiling: understanding the behaviour and motivations of attackers is a key aspect. By profiling cybercriminals, hacktivists and state-sponsored groups, you can anticipate likely attack vectors and plan how to defend against them.
• Global threat trends: external intelligence shows how threats evolve worldwide, for example new malware strains, phishing campaigns and other attack methods used across different industries and regions.
• Indicators of compromise (IoCs): it helps you recognise indicators of compromise such as malicious IP addresses, domain names and file hashes. These IoCs can be used to detect and block threats before they get into your network.
• Threat sharing and collaboration: many organisations take part in threat intelligence sharing communities, where they exchange information about threats and vulnerabilities. Learning from each other’s experience raises the level of security for everyone.

Benefits of external threat intelligence

• Proactive defence: staying informed about external threats lets you adjust your security measures to new and evolving risks.
• Informed decisions: external intelligence provides the context you need to decide, for example, which patches to apply first and where to allocate resources.
• Better threat detection: with access to a broader range of threat data, you can detect external threats and respond to them more effectively.

In short

External threat intelligence is an essential tool for protecting your organisation in a threat landscape that never stops changing. Insights from external sources strengthen your security strategy, help you anticipate attacks and build a more resilient defence.

In ARXDOME, this is the job of ARX Horizon: a single gateway to the intelligence sources, which enriches every event in the pipeline with country, network operator, threat lists and CVE details, and lets analysts check an indicator from the portal. Distribution of indicators of compromise to the customers’ devices is planned.

External intelligence works best together with the internal kind: read how internal threat intelligence improves your security.