Detection Signature: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A detection signature is intelligence written in executable form. Read as a document, it tells you exactly what its author...
APT / Espionage
Malware Family: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A malware family name is an analytical claim, not a fact stamped on the binary. It is the most useful...
SSL/TLS Certificate: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Adversaries change domains and IPs constantly. They reuse certificate configuration because it is tedious not to. That asymmetry makes the...
CVE / Vulnerability: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A CVE identifier is a label for a flaw, not a measure of your risk. Treating the two as the...
File Hash: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A file hash is the cheapest reliable fact in cyber threat intelligence: fixed length, unambiguous, and either it matches or...
TLS / JA3 Fingerprint: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Encryption hides the payload, not the handshake. The way a client says hello is often enough to name the software...
IP Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An IP address tells you where traffic went, not who sent it. Treat it as a lead on infrastructure, never...
Domain Name: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A domain name is the cheapest thing an adversary buys and the most expensive thing for them to keep clean....
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Signals intelligence is a state function with a warrant behind it. For everyone else, the discipline still matters, because you...
Technical Intelligence (TECHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every device carries a confession: certification filings, component markings, firmware strings and design choices. Technical intelligence reads that confession to...
Vulnerability Intelligence (VULNINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
There are more vulnerabilities than you will ever patch. Vulnerability intelligence exists to tell you which few hundred actually matter...
Threat Actor Intelligence (ACTORINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Infrastructure changes weekly and tooling changes quarterly, but habits almost never change. Actor intelligence is the discipline of tracking what...
Malware Intelligence (MALINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A malware sample is a confession. It documents what its author wanted, how they build software, and where they expect...
Domain Intelligence (DOMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Domains are the cheapest and most disposable part of an attack, and the most revealing. Registration and DNS leave a...
Cyber Intelligence (CYBINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Cyber intelligence is what turns telemetry into a story about an adversary. Without it you have logs. With it you...
Certificate Intelligence (CERTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every publicly trusted TLS certificate is logged in public within seconds of issuance. That log is one of the richest...
Economic Espionage: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Industrial espionage rarely looks like a break-in. It looks like a departing researcher, a joint venture with an unusual data...
Operational Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Investigations are compromised by their own footprint far more often than by adversary brilliance. A referrer header, a reused persona,...
Threat Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
An indicator list is not intelligence. Intelligence is a judgement, held to a stated confidence, that changes what a decision-maker...
Malware: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A hash tells you a file was seen. A configuration extraction tells you the campaign identifier, the operator's infrastructure and,...
Ransomware: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A leak site countdown is a negotiating instrument, not a report. Half the value of ransomware intelligence lies in knowing...
APT / Espionage: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The median intrusion that matters is not loud. It is a valid credential, a legitimate administrative tool and eleven months...
Nation State: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
State activity rarely arrives labelled. It surfaces as a procurement order routed through a third-country freight forwarder, a research institute...
