Domain 2: Strategic Cyber Threat Intelligence
| No: 43065348 | Date(g): 27/2/2022 | Date(h): 26/7/1443 | Status: In-Force |
Considering the changing nature of the threat landscape, Strategic CTI allows to continuously monitor the cyber ecosystem and to prevent threats.
Strategic CTI specifically helps at identifying and understanding the threats to the financial sector. It provides the level of threat intelligence focused on objectives, motivations, and intent of cyber threat actors, strategic CTI aims at examining attribution, investigating real motivations and links between cyber events, and understanding the financial sector's ecosystem.
The threat landscape includes information on the threat actors that are most relevant to the Member Organizations, their main characteristics, and the main cyber trends within the financial sector worldwide.
This information is addressed to relevant executive management (e.g. chief Information Security officer) who will relay the information to other relevant parties (e.g. IT management, business leaders, etc.). Strategic CTI aids in the organization's understanding of current cyber threats, unknown future threats, threat actors, and attribution of attacks. Such understanding is key to having a pro-active approach to cybersecurity in order to build the resilience of the financial sector in the KSA.