Introduction

Cybersecurity is no longer just about building walls it’s about anticipating attacks before they happen. ISO 27001 Control 5.7 focuses on threat intelligence gathering and using information about current and emerging threats to proactively defend your organization.

Done right, threat intelligence transforms security from reactive firefighting into proactive risk management.

Summary of Control 5.7: Threat Intelligence

🔒 Control Title: Threat Intelligence
📘 Source: ISO/IEC 27002:2022, Section 5.7
🧩 Control Category: Organizational
🔍 Attributes:

Control Type: #Preventive / #Detective

Security Properties: #Confidentiality, #Integrity, #Availability

Cybersecurity Concepts: #Identify, #Protect, #Detect, #Respond

Operational Capabilities: #Threat_Intelligence, #Incident_Response

Security Domain: #Protection_and_Defense, #Governance_and_Ecosystem

Control Objective

To ensure that organizations collect, analyze, and use threat intelligence from internal and external sources to improve detection, prevention, and response to security incidents.

Implementation Guidance

1) Identify Threat Intelligence Sources:

• Public feeds (e.g. CISA alerts, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security bulletins)
• Commercial providers
• Industry-specific ISACs
• Internal logs, incident reports, and vulnerability scans

2) Define Intelligence Requirements:

• Focus on threats most relevant to your industry, technology stack, and geographic region

3) Integrate Threat Intelligence into Security Processes:

• Use intel to update firewall rules, SIEM alerts, vulnerability patching schedules, and phishing awareness campaigns

4) Establish Validation and Analysis:

• Correlate multiple sources to ensure reliability
• Use threat scoring to prioritize action

5) Share Relevant Intelligence:

• Communicate with internal teams, management, and in some cases, external partners or authorities

Why This Control Matters

Threat intelligence:

• Improves incident detection and response times
• Helps anticipate attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Supports compliance by showing proactive risk management
• Increases resilience against both targeted and opportunistic attacks

Common Pitfalls to Avoid

• Drowning in irrelevant or unactionable threat feeds
• No process to analyze and prioritize intelligence
• Not integrating threat intelligence into daily operations
• Keeping intelligence siloed and unused

Canadian Cyber’s Take

At Canadian Cyber, we help organizations cut through the noise to get actionable, relevant, and timely threat intelligence. From selecting the right feeds to integrating them into SIEM and SOC workflows, we ensure intel directly reduces your risk.

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