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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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How to use the cyber profile?
1. What has the adversary been able to do?
2. What are their objectives?
3. Who are they?
4. What are they going to do next?
What Next? Using the Profile
These questions provide you with the awareness of the situation to respond effectively. The response may be a change in a configuration or a modification to a security policy or an update to user training. It could also be an automatic change by setting up rules to trigger on a specific behavior pattern to manipulate the adversary within the deception environment. Or it could be a link to an orchestration platform to initiate a response in the wider security ecosystem.
Whatever the response, by having a good understanding of the activity, motives and identity of the adversary gained from profiling techniques and data gathered from your deception environment, you can predict with greater confidence what they are going to do next and defeat them. And that is how we, as security professionals, can truly make a difference in cybersecurity.