312-50V12 · Question #293
312-50V12 Question #293: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation
The correct answer is B: Operational threat intelligence. Arnold's collection of contextual information about security events, attacker methodologies, and recommended actions from sources like humans and social media represents operational threat intelligence.
Question
Leverox Solutions hired Arnold, a security professional, for the threat intelligence process. Arnold collected information about specific threats against the organization. From this information, he retrieved contextual information about security events and incidents that helped him disclose potential risks and gain insight into attacker methodologies. He collected the information from sources such as humans, social media, and chat rooms as well as from events that resulted in cyberattacks. In this process, he also prepared a report that includes identified malicious activities, recommended courses of action, and warnings for emerging attacks. What is the type of threat intelligence collected by Arnold in the above scenario?
Options
- AStrategic threat intelligence
- BOperational threat intelligence
- CTechnical threat intelligence
- DTactical threat intelligence
Explanation
Arnold's collection of contextual information about security events, attacker methodologies, and recommended actions from sources like humans and social media represents operational threat intelligence.
Common mistakes.
- A. Strategic threat intelligence focuses on high-level organizational risks, long-term trends, and the overall threat landscape, rather than specific attacker methodologies or incident details.
- C. Technical threat intelligence deals with specific indicators of compromise (IOCs) like IP addresses, hashes, and domains, which is a narrower focus than the contextual information and methodologies described.
- D. Tactical threat intelligence focuses on specific tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by attackers, which, while related, is more granular than the broader contextual and methodological insights derived from human and social media sources characteristic of operational intelligence.
Concept tested. Types of threat intelligence (operational)
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