Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is the process of collecting, analyzing, and sharing information about potential or existing cyber threats that could impact an organization’s security. The goal of CTI is to understand the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of threat actors, enabling organizations to proactively defend against attacks, improve incident response, and reduce the risk of cyber threats.

CTI involves gathering raw data from various sources, including internal logs, external threat feeds, dark web sources, threat reports, and more. This data can include indicators of compromise (IOCs), such as IP addresses, domain names, file hashes, or even more sophisticated indicators like attack patterns or threat actor profiles.