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Cyber Threat Intelligence Becomes Mandatory: A New Priority for Critical Infrastructure

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is a major and massive growing discipline within Cybersecurity focusing on collecting, analyzing, and sharing information about current and potential cyber threats so organizations can anticipate, prevent, and respond to attacks more effectively according to Palo Alto Networks and other major players.

CTI is becoming a core capability for critical infrastructure operators like Energy providers, moving from “nice to have” to de facto and often legal requirements embedded in IT/OT/ICS security, NIS2 and national resilience strategies programs.

Strategic role in critical infrastructure

  • National level work increasingly treats CTI as a pillar of protecting energy, transport, mobility, health, water and finance, helping governments and operators understand adversaries, likely scenarios, and cascading cross sector impacts
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence supports risk based investment and prioritization decisions (e.g., where to segment, where to add monitoring, which IT/OT assets to modernize first) by tying threat trends and actor capabilities to concrete infrastructure dependencies

NIS2 and regulatory expectations

  • Under NIS2 and related EU instruments (CRA, DORA), operators of essential and important entities must demonstrate proactive, intelligence driven security monitoring and a risk based approach, which explicitly elevates threat intelligence from optional to expected practice
  • Analyses of NIS2 emphasize Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) for: anticipating sector specific threats, supporting continuous risk assessment, prioritizing remediation across cloud and legacy assets, and enabling better reporting and collaboration with CSIRTs and other national authorities
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Specific Use Cases to critical infrastructure

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) for critical infrastructures is trending toward more automation (AI/ML analytics over big data, OSINT, telemetry) and tighter integration into detection, response, and resilience planning, rather than standalone manual generated reports.

Critical infrastructures need an AI powered CTI engine to aggregate and interpret global Threats, to fuse it with proprietary models, enriched through the expertise of Cyber experts to get actionable insights and specific role based intelligence.

Introducing our AI based CTI approach for critical infrastructure.

CTI for critical infrastructure is trending toward more automation (AI/ML analytics over big data, OSINT, telemetry) and tighter integration into detection, response, and resilience planning, rather than standalone reports.

Intelligence network in Cyber Threat Intelligence

The graph shows the main elements of our AI powered CTI solution – turn fragmented CIT information into actionable insights and role base intelligence.

The right hand side shows the CTI feeds and sources for date collection. This list is not complete and needs to be adapted as Cybersecurity hreats are evolving very quickly. The core is processig and analytics, data will be analyzed, normanlized and enrichted by AI (Transformer and Foundational Models). The Dessimination provides CTI insights for different user und roles. The last one is the integration to exisiting workflows and IT tools.

This is the first article in a three-part series. The second introduces the role of AI in cybersecurity, and the third provides an overview of frameworks and how to prepare for the present and the future.

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