On today’s show, we take a closer look at finished intelligence. What are the best ways to define it, who’s the best audience for it, and how can you be sure you’re getting the best bang for your buck when you request it? And what’s the best plan for dialing in finished intelligence when it comes to managing resources and supplementing the other types of intelligence your organization may generate or consume?

Joining us to help answer these questions is David Carver, team lead for subscription services at Recorded Future. He’ll provide practical insights based on his experience collaborating with customers.

Our guest today is Mike Morris, chief technology officer at root9B, where he’s chief architect behind the design and integration of their Active Adversary Pursuit threat hunting platform. Mike began his career in the U.S. Air Force and was an integral part of many of the Department of Defense’s pioneering efforts to help protect the nation’s cyber infrastructure. Mike shares the story of his professional journey from the military to the private sector, his philosophy on threat hunting and threat intelligence, how he thinks organizations can best build effective teams, and much more.

Many organizations find themselves faced with the challenge of managing third-party risk, working with business partners, vendors, and suppliers to ensure that they are handling security and managing vulnerabilities at an acceptable level. Traditionally, this has been accomplished through static assessments — snapshots of a security posture at a specific moment in time — done at regular intervals. There are limitations to this approach, since businesses don’t operate in static environments, and things change in real time.

Our guest today is Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst and ESG fellow at the Enterprise Strategy Group. He’s author of a recently published study, “Third-Party Risk: Why Real-Time Intelligence Matters.”

Our guest this week is Thomas H. Davenport. He’s a world-renowned thought leader and author, and is the president’s distinguished professor of information technology and management at Babson College, a fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business, and an independent senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics.

Tom Davenport is author and co-author of 15 books and more than 100 articles. He helps organizations to revitalize their management practices in areas such as analytics, information and knowledge management, process management, and enterprise systems. His most recent book is “The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work (Management on the Cutting Edge).”

Returning to the show to join the discussion is Recorded Future’s chief data scientist, Bill Ladd.

Schneider Electric is a global energy management and automation company headquartered in France, employing over 144,000 people around the world. With a history dating back to the 1830s, these days Schneider Electric enjoys success in industrial control systems, industrial safety systems, electric power distribution and grid automation, smart grid technology, and data center power and cooling.

Our guest today is Andrew Kling, senior director of cybersecurity and system architecture at Schneider Electric. He shares his professional journey, his experience pioneering many of the security measures we take for granted today, the shift to being proactive in his sector, and the importance of threat intelligence.

Schneider Electric is a global energy management and automation company headquartered in France, employing over 144,000 people around the world. With a history dating back to the 1830s, these days Schneider Electric enjoys success in industrial control systems, industrial safety systems, electric power distribution and grid automation, smart grid technology, and data center power and cooling.

Our guest today is Andrew Kling, senior director of cybersecurity and system architecture at Schneider Electric. He shares his professional journey, his experience pioneering many of the security measures we take for granted today, the shift to being proactive in his sector, and the importance of threat intelligence.

BT is a global telecommunications giant, headquartered in London with over 100,000 employees all over the world. In addition to telephone services in Great Britain, BT provides broadband internet, fiber-optic communications, digital television, and even supply chain management services. They also provide IT and network security services.

Our guest today is Mark Hughes, who served as the CEO of BT Security from 2013 to 2018. He oversaw the security of BT’s internal networks and assets, as well as the services they provide to outside clients. He shares with us his techniques for building effective, collaborative security teams, how he earns buy-in from both his colleagues and his board of directors, and the importance of threat intelligence. He’ll also share his experience gearing up for the 2012 London Olympic Games, and why he thinks it was a milestone moment for cybersecurity.

BT is a global telecommunications giant, headquartered in London with over 100,000 employees all over the world. In addition to telephone services in Great Britain, BT provides broadband internet, fiber-optic communications, digital television, and even supply chain management services. They also provide IT and network security services.

Our guest today is Mark Hughes, who served as the CEO of BT Security from 2013 to 2018. He oversaw the security of BT’s internal networks and assets, as well as the services they provide to outside clients. He shares with us his techniques for building effective, collaborative security teams, how he earns buy-in from both his colleagues and his board of directors, and the importance of threat intelligence. He’ll also share his experience gearing up for the 2012 London Olympic Games, and why he thinks it was a milestone moment for cybersecurity.

Our guest today is Aaron Gee-Clough. He’s chief technology officer for King & Union, a company that aims to bring increased collaboration to threat intelligence analysts, allowing them to more easily visualize and manage threat data in real time.

We discuss the benefits and challenges in bringing meaningful, actionable threat intelligence to small and mid-sized organizations, what he thinks machine learning can and cannot bring to the table, the distinction between threat intelligence and lists of bad IPs, and how many organizations are already exercising their impulse to collaborate and share information, even if they’re doing it in unofficial or inefficient ways.

Our guest today is Aaron Gee-Clough. He’s chief technology officer for King & Union, a company that aims to bring increased collaboration to threat intelligence analysts, allowing them to more easily visualize and manage threat data in real time.

We discuss the benefits and challenges in bringing meaningful, actionable threat intelligence to small and mid-sized organizations, what he thinks machine learning can and cannot bring to the table, the distinction between threat intelligence and lists of bad IPs, and how many organizations are already exercising their impulse to collaborate and share information, even if they’re doing it in unofficial or inefficient ways.