Understanding how Threat Intelligence aligns with TIBER-EU

In the context of the TIBER-EU (Threat Intelligence-Based Ethical Red Teaming for the European Union) framework, Threat Intelligence plays a pivotal role in enhancing the effectiveness and relevance of red teaming exercises within the financial sector.

Intelligence-driven approach to cybersecurity:

1. Scenario Development: Threat Intelligence informs the creation of realistic and relevant attack scenarios tailored to the European financial sector’s evolving threat landscape, ensuring that red teaming exercises simulate credible and plausible cyber threats.
2. TTPs Alignment: By analysing Threat Intelligence, red teams can align their Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) with current threat actor behaviours, methodologies, and attack vectors, ensuring simulations mirror real-world cyber-attacks effectively.
3. Targeted Assessments: Threat Intelligence enables red teams to focus on specific areas, systems, networks, and assets within financial institutions that are most susceptible to cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and risks, facilitating targeted and impactful assessments.
4. Regulatory Compliance: TIBER-EU emphasizes the importance of incorporating Threat Intelligence to meet regulatory requirements, standards, and guidelines, ensuring that red teaming exercises align with industry best practices, regulatory expectations, and organizational objectives.
5. Continuous Improvement: Leveraging Threat Intelligence, financial institutions can enhance their red teaming capabilities, methodologies, and strategies continuously, adapting to emerging cyber threats, technologies, and regulatory changes within the European Union’s cybersecurity landscape.