Reuse of threat intelligence data 2015

This statistic shows the main ways in which threat intelligence data is reused within information security worldwide, according to a 2015 survey conducted by the SANS Institute. As of 2015, 22.5 percent of respondents said their business did not correlate security event data with either internal intelligence data or external threat intelligence tools.

Use of threat intelligence data in information security worldwide in 2015*

Characteristic	Percentage of respondents
Collect advanced threat information internally, dissect it and include it for future detection	44.3%
Use external third parties to collect advanced threat information for detection and response	43%
† Have a security analytics system that handles the intake of intelligence automatically and correlate this against security information	36.2%
Have a security analytics system that takes in intelligence and indicators of compromise automatically	32.2%
Correlate manually advanced threat information against information collected in their SIEM	30.2%
Don't correlate their event data with internally gathered intelligence data or external threat intelligence tools	22.5%
Have their SIEM vendor work with intelligence agents and update the intelligence data for them	17.8%

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Release date

November 2015

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2015

Number of respondents

476 respondents

Supplementary notes

* The source does not provide information on the original wording used during the survey. Thus, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ from the one in the survey.
^† The original answer was phrased by the source as follows: "Have a security analytics system that handles the intake of intelligence automatically behind the scenes and correlates this against whitelisting/blacklisting and reputational information".
SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management.

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