he threat intelligence landscape has vastly changed over the years. While the term was originally used to refer to malware Indicators of Compromise (IOC) – lists of known malware signatures and the servers those malware communicate with, a method to identify infected devices within corporate networks – as time went by vendors have broadly expanded that concept to offer new types of intelligence. The term “Threat Intelligence” encompasses an ever-growing set of offerings that, on an operational standpoint, have different use cases.

For example, intelligence on external threats such as leaked documents or leaked source code has nothing to do with malware. Other examples may not even refer to malicious threats, where sensitive data can leak due to an error on one of the employees’ behalf.