Why Threat Intelligence Is Like Teenage Sex

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By Nick Selby
Commentary
Dark Reading
5/7/2014

Whatever the official theme of the 2014 RSA Conference was, any one 
attendee will tell you the unofficial theme -- the message on every banner 
in the place, it seemed -- was “Threat Intelligence.” But threat 
intelligence, as it was put to me by Eric Olson of Cyveillance, is a lot 
like teenage sex: Everyone is talking about it, everyone thinks everyone 
else is doing it, and most of the few people who are actually doing it 
aren't doing it all that well.

There are lots of fashionable things to say about intelligence, and 
everyone gets all… cool when they discuss it, as if they have some dark, 
national secret that you don't have. Balderdash!

Let's cut through the mystery in two important ways:

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