Introduction to the Threat Intelligence Lifecycle
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Taught by IBM Skills Network Team
Information TechnologyComputer Science
About the course
Today, we are faced with the increasing challenges of dealing with more aggressive and persistent threat actors, while being inundated with information, which is full of misinformation and false flags across multiple, unconnected systems. With information coming from such a wide variety of sources, how do you tell what is reliable and actionable, and what isn't? The Threat Intelligence lifecycle is the planning, collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating of information to help mitigat
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