Using Threat Intelligence to Improve HIT Infrastructure Security

Advancing healthcare technology means that IT infrastructure security threats are becoming more sophisticated. A better view of IT infrastructure and the ability to collect and analyze threat data using threat intelligence can give organizations better insight into the kinds of cyberattacks they face and how to best handle them. Evolving cybersecurity attacks cause IT decision-makers to question the value of their IT security infrastructure. Organizations need to know if their cybersecurity tools are working correctly and they need to make sure they are investing in the correct tools to fill security gaps. Wasting money on IT security redundancies is almost as detrimental as leaving security gaps. Threat intelligence is cyber threat information that is collected, evaluated, and put into context. The information is analyzed and tested for reliability and applied to an organization’s cybersecurity solution, according to the Center for Internet Security (CIS). Organizations can then better understand threats based on data points and use that data to understand how it relates to cybersecurity tools. “Like all intelligence, cyber threat intelligence provides a value-add to cyber threat information, which reduces uncertainty for the consumer, while aiding the consumer in identifying threats and opportunities,” CIS explained. “It requires that analysts identify similarities and differences in vast quantities of information and detect deceptions to produce accurate, timely, and relevant intelligence.”