Guest:

• John Doyle, Principle Intelligence Enablement Consultant at Mandiant / Google Cloud

Topics:

• You have created a new intelligence class focused on building enterprise threat intelligence capability, so what is the profile of an organization and profile for a person that benefits the most from the class?

• There are many places to learn threat intel (TI), what is special about your new class?

• You talk about country cyber operations in the class, so what is the defender - relevant difference between, say, DPRK and Iran cyber doctrines? More generally, how do defenders benefit from such per country intel?

• Can you really predict what the state-affiliated attackers would do to your organization based on the country doctrine?

• In many minds, TI is connected to attribution. What is your best advice on attribution to CISOs of well-resourced organizations? What about mainstream organizations?

• Overall we see a lot of organizations still failing to operationalize TI, especially strategic TI, how does this help them?

Resources:

• The new class "Inside the Mind of APT"

• "Navigating Tradeoffs of Attribution" paper

• Sands Casino hack 2014

• "Threat Horizons - How Google Does Threat Intelligence" (ep112)