A Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team delivers a briefing to the CISO detailing their view of the threat landscape the organization faces. This is an example of what type of Threat Intelligence?

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Options

• ATactical
• BStrategic
• COperational
• DExecutive

• B
  93% (38)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Strategic Intelligence (B) is correct because it describes high-level, big-picture threat information delivered to senior leadership (CISO) to inform organizational decisions, policy, and long-term planning - exactly what a "threat landscape" briefing represents.

• A (Tactical) is wrong - tactical intelligence focuses on TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) used by threat actors, aimed at security engineers and analysts, not executives.
• C (Operational) is wrong - operational intelligence relates to specific, active or imminent threats and campaigns, used to plan defensive operations in near-real-time.
• D (Executive) is a common trap - while the audience here is executive-level (CISO), "Executive" is not a standard CTI classification. The type of intelligence is defined by its scope and purpose, not the job title of who receives it.

Memory tip: Think Strategic = Senior leadership + Scope of the whole landscape. If the briefing asks "what threats face us broadly?" it's Strategic; if it asks "how does this attacker operate?" it's Tactical.

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