Threat Intelligence and Malware Analysis: Staying Ahead of Adversaries
Threat Intelligence and Malware Analysis: Staying Ahead of Adversaries Threat intelligence and malware analysis are two sides of the same shield. Threat intelligence gives context about who might attack and why, while malware analysis reveals how malicious software behaves. Together, they help security teams detect, understand, and respond faster. This approach works best when teams connect data from networks, endpoints, and trusted sources. Start with a simple workflow: collect signals, enrich them with known tactics, analyze behaviors, and share findings with the right people. Threat intelligence provides attacker profiles, maps activities to MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and highlights likely targets. Malware analysis looks at samples to see file tricks, persistence methods, communication patterns, and evasion steps. ...