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How should businesses respond to the clear, present and ever-evolving threat of cyber-attack? Completely locking down their IT systems isn’t an option, but neither is complacency. Vulnerabilities will almost inevitably be discovered and exploited, and once security breaches have happened they’re usually expensive and time-consuming to remediate, often resulting in lasting damage to the victim’s reputation and bottom line.

The trick is to work out the attacks you’re most likely to face, guard against them to the best of your ability, and review this process regularly. Where to start? Well, no military commander would charge headlong into battle without a clear strategic picture of the conflict, and the same applies in the cyber theatre. That’s where business risk intelligence (BRI), or cyber threat intelligence (CTI), comes in.

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