Why is security intelligence important today?

Security intelligence is a way to reduce the risk that takes into account both outside and inside threats, security, and business intelligence across an entire organization.

“Security intelligence” is defined as “the real-time gathering, standardization, and analysis of user, application, and infrastructure data that impacts an enterprise’s IT security and risk posture.” Security intelligence’s ultimate purpose is to lessen the burden of risk management and day-to-day operations on businesses of all sizes by providing them with accurate and thorough data.

Security Intelligence comprises two parts. First, collecting and integrating network system, server, application, user, access, activity, and transaction data in a powerful security data repository. Second, continuously analyzing and monitoring that data to detect harmful actions. Syslog, IAM tools, AD/LDAP, HR Databases, DLP, and SIEM systems should have out-of-the-box interfaces. Analytics should link each account to a user and offer behavioral profiles for each account, user, and peer group. Behavioral profiling isn’t enough. A robust security intelligence platform must resolve and monitor access entitlements to align resource access with roles and requirements to reduce insider risk, monitor data access at the file and database level to protect IP, and monitor application transactions to detect fraud, all while minimizing risk. A modern security intelligence platform may help with incident response and investigation, including drilling down into suspicious events.