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However the vast majority of breaches are not due to these highly sophisticated actors.

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Instead, organizations are breached by relatively low-sophistication actors that often operate onsocial mediasites or dark web forums.

For this reason, cyber threat intelligence has gotten a bad reputation for low actionability.

Its not that cyber threat intelligence cant be useful.

However, it has been focused on the wrong things.

Steering more attention toward these less sophisticated actors will make a huge impact.

Yet many organizations are still not aware, and not properly responding to this threat.

Ransomware groups and threat actors will then purchase these credential sets and use them to stage an attack.

Legacy CTI providers are failing to provide adequate depth to their findings.

Thats why the future ofcybersecurityintelligence is using Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).

Exposure could be anything from a breached identity to exposed data in a misconfigured S3 bucket.

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