A threat intelligence platform (TIP) is a security technology that collects, normalizes, enriches, analyzes, and shares cyber threat intelligence from multiple sources. It helps security teams turn large volumes of threat data into actionable intelligence that can support threat detection, investigations, threat hunting, and incident response.
Threat intelligence platforms bring external and internal intelligence into a central system where analysts can evaluate indicators of compromise (IOCs), threat actors, campaigns, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and other threat information.
To understand the intelligence that feeds these platforms, learn more about cyber threat intelligence and how security teams use it to make more informed decisions.
A threat intelligence platform works by collecting threat data from multiple sources, standardizing and enriching that data, analyzing it for relevance, and distributing actionable intelligence to analysts and security tools. This helps organizations use threat intelligence consistently across detection, investigation, and response workflows.
While capabilities vary by platform, enterprise TIPs generally support four core functions:
Threat intelligence platforms can manage tactical, operational, strategic, and technical intelligence depending on the needs of the organization. This may include IOCs, malware information, threat actor profiles, campaigns, vulnerabilities, TTPs, and contextual intelligence about emerging threats.
Different forms of intelligence serve different security decisions. Learn more about the types of threat intelligence and how tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence support security operations.
A Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is useful to many parties within an organization.
ThreatStream customers can easily trial and purchase threat intelligence from APP Store partners. Find the right intelligence for your organization, industry, geography, threat type, and more.
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ThreatStream provides the industry’s most complete set of proven, turnkey integrations into leading enterprise SIEM, EDR, firewall, SOAR, and other security controls, delivering fast time to value.
Threat intelligence platforms turn raw threat data into actionable intelligence by aggregating information, normalizing formats, removing duplicates, enriching indicators with additional context, and prioritizing intelligence based on relevance and risk, explained below.
Commercial intelligence, open-source intelligence, government sources, ISACs/ISAOs, internal intelligence and other sources.
Standardize inconsistent information and remove duplicate records.
Add context around indicators, adversaries, campaigns, malware and vulnerabilities to help analysts determine relevance.
Connect intelligence to security workflows so it can improve detection, investigation and response.
A threat intelligence platform integrates with security technologies such as SIEM, SOAR, XDR, EDR, firewalls, and other security controls to move relevant intelligence into operational workflows. These integrations help teams enrich alerts, support investigations, improve threat detection, and automate appropriate security actions.
Data that has been normalized, vetted, and enriched must then be delivered to systems that can use it for automated enforcement and monitoring. The purpose of this is to provide these technologies with what is essentially a “cyber no-fly list”, much like the kind of no-fly list you might encounter at an airport. Based on background knowledge, certain IPs, domains, and more should not be accessed or allowed within the network.
Organizations evaluating how these capabilities work within a broader security architecture can explore Anomali's Threat Intelligence capabilities, including intelligence enrichment, integration, and operationalization across security workflows.
A Threat Intelligence Platform works with SIEM and log management system vendors behind the scenes, pulling down indicators to push across to security solutions within the customer network infrastructure. The burden of establishing and maintaining these integrations is therefore lifted from the analysts and instead shifted over to the SIEM and TIP vendors.
Possible security product integrations include:
A Threat Intelligence Platform provides features that aid with analysis of potential threats and corresponding mitigation. More specifically, these features help analysts to:
A Threat Intelligence Platform also aids analysts by automating the research and collection processes, significantly reducing response time. Some specific functionalities of the analysis part of a Threat Intelligence Platform include:
Anomali helps security teams move beyond collecting threat data by enriching, analyzing, and operationalizing intelligence across security workflows.
What does a threat intelligence platform do?
A TIP centralizes threat intelligence, removes duplicate data, enriches indicators with context, supports threat analysis, and distributes relevant intelligence to security teams and tools such as SIEM, SOAR, XDR, and EDR platforms.
What is the difference between threat intelligence and a threat intelligence platform?
Threat intelligence is information and analysis about cyber threats, adversaries, and their behaviors. A threat intelligence platform is technology used to collect, manage, enrich, analyze, and distribute that intelligence across security operations.
What is the difference between a threat intelligence platform and a threat intelligence feed?
A threat intelligence feed provides threat data from a specific source. A TIP brings together intelligence from multiple feeds and other sources, then normalizes, enriches, analyzes, and distributes that information for use across security workflows.
How does a threat intelligence platform integrate with a SIEM?
A TIP can provide threat intelligence to a SIEM to enrich security events and alerts with additional context. This helps analysts determine whether activity is associated with known indicators, adversaries, campaigns, or attack techniques.
Who uses threat intelligence platforms?
Threat intelligence analysts, SOC teams, threat hunters, detection engineers, incident responders, and security leaders use TIPs to manage intelligence and apply it across security operations.