This is the third edition of ThreatQuotient’s annual survey of senior cybersecurity professionals, exploring the topic of cybersecurity automation adoption. Read this report to understand how CISOs and senior cybersecurity professionals are handling the incorporation of cybersecurity automation into their strategies to protect the complex, extended enterprise – and their analyst teams – from the pressures of escalating cyber threats.

This paper seeks to introduce some of the new knowledge sources and actionable data, along with a data-driven approach that puts custom cyber intelligence at the center of the process seeking to deliver the tools to help the organization stay as close to the front of the race as possible.

A survey of 250 UK cybersecurity professionals on their perspectives of the state, benefits, and challenges in security process automation.

A lot of progress has been made in the past few years around requirements. Next steps in this area include identifying when and why to update intelligence requirements—even ad hoc adjustments can be planned for by identifying the circumstances under which they would need to be changed. It is also clear that there are numerous positive trends in the community, such as more organizations producing intelligence instead of just consuming it. But there are also many challenges, such as getting the appropriate staffing and training to conduct cyber threat intelligence. Tools and data sources are always going to be vital to the process, but the world of intelligence analysis is inherently analyst driven and a focus is rightfully placed there.

On an ongoing basis, Visa tracks global breach trends affecting retailers and other merchants. In 2017, research confirmed that the U.S. and Europe were the top two regions for payment data breaches. This report offers insight specific to Visa and their unique due diligence in the cyber threat universe.

This report offers insight into digital threat intelligence management.