"Challenges And Benefits of Using Threat Data Feeds"

Researchers at Ponemon Institute discovered that threat data feeds could help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture.  The researchers surveyed 1025 IT security practitioners (70% of whom were at or above the supervisory level) in the United States and the United Kingdom. Most of the professionals participating (79%) in the study said threat data feeds were essential to their organization’s ability to achieve a strong cybersecurity posture, and 55% rate the quality of their threat feeds’ ability to pinpoint cyberthreats as very high.  Study participants said threat data feeds offer several benefits.  Threat data feeds add unique data to better inform security (71%), increase preventive blocking to ensure a better defense (63%), reduces the time it takes to detect and remediate an attack (55%), and reduce the time spent researching false positives (51%).  However, more than half (56%) of respondents also said threat feeds deliver data that is often too voluminous and/or complex to provide timely and actionable intelligence.

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