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Threat Intelligence Consultancy
Threat Intelligence That Turns Adversary Insight into Decisive Action.
Helping organizations build and operationalize threat intelligence capabilities that anticipate adversaries, enrich decisions, and transform detection. Eristotle partners with security, SOC, and risk teams to design a tailored Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) program, fusing adversary profiling, data aggregation, platform integration, and proactive threat hunting into a single, intelligence-driven capability that strengthens defense, response, and long-term resilience.
Anticipate Adversaries. Enrich Decisions. Transform Detection.
In a threat landscape defined by sophisticated adversaries, expanding attack surfaces, and persistent intelligence gaps, organizations need more than raw feeds and indicators, they need structured, actionable, and operationalized threat intelligence that directly informs defense and decision-making.
Eristotle’s Threat Intelligence Consultancy equips organizations to elevate their defenses through a scalable, intelligence-driven framework that integrates adversary profiling, data aggregation, platform integration, and proactive threat hunting into one cohesive capability.
Our consultants work alongside your cybersecurity, SOC, and risk teams to design and implement a comprehensive Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Program tailored to your risk profile, regulatory environment, and operational context. The methodology integrates strategic guidance with hands-on deployment support across key capability areas:
- Threat Landscape Mapping: Analyze which actors, TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), and campaigns are most relevant to your industry, geographies, and operations
- Data Aggregation & Enrichment: Evaluate internal telemetry and external sources (OSINT, dark web feeds, commercial subscriptions) to design an optimized threat intake and enrichment model
- Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) Deployment: Assist in the selection, configuration, and integration of TIPs into the SOC ecosystem, including automation workflows and case management alignment
- Threat Hunting & Detection Optimization: Build internal threat hunting playbooks, train analysts in hypothesis-driven hunting, and refine detection rules based on observed adversary behavior
- Closed-Loop Intelligence Integration: Align threat intelligence with incident response, vulnerability management, and security operations to enable detection, containment, and recovery
Aligned to ISOBOK™ – A Consensus Driven Standard
ISOBOK™ is developed through a rigorous consensus-driven standards development process and incorporates the collective wisdom and experience of experts in the field from around the world. It defines the skills and knowledge required by ISO professionals.
- Contains a description of generally accepted practices for the establishment of Information Security Offices.
- Community driven and consensus based, continuously updated through iterations.
- Techniques are transferable with option to modify concepts and best practices for wide range of organizational contexts.
- Includes the highly valued Reporting Framework.
1. Security Leadership
- Defines the ISO’s role, competencies, and mindset, including the different types of ISOs.
- Establishes the security organisation’s structure, charter, and board-level mandate.
- Aligns with industry standards and frameworks to develop a comprehensive security strategy.
- Covers setting up budgets, initiating security programs, and embedding the function into enterprise governance.
2. Security Culture
- Emphasizes that humans are the final line of defense and central to effective security.
- Promotes a human-centric approach through awareness, training, and behavior-shaping initiatives.
- Uses phishing simulations, access hygiene practices, and continuous reinforcement to improve behaviors.
- Encourages a feedback-driven culture of continuous improvement and user engagement.
3. Security Governance
- Establishes governance through policies, frameworks, ISMS, and the 3 Lines of Defense model.
- Defines risk management approaches, including qualitative/quantitative methods, tolerance, and appetite.
- Integrates compliance, audit, and control mechanisms to align security and business risk.
- Addresses fraud prevention, governance councils, and harmonization between compliance and security.
4. Security Advisory
- Advises on security trends, frameworks, and standards, supporting strategic and operational decisions.
- Applies a layered defense model and reviews risks across technology domains.
- Offers guidance on integrating emerging technologies and securing IT/OT environments.
5. Security Operations
- Aligns security operations with business goals through a service-based SOC model.
- Plans and executes incident and crisis management using structured detection and response frameworks.
- Defines SOC team roles and leverages platforms like SIEM, SOAR, and threat intelligence tools.
6. Security Reporting
- Delivers tiered reporting for operational, management, and board-level audiences.
- Ensures regulatory, legal, and external stakeholder reporting meets compliance obligations.
- Uses KPIs, KRIs, dashboards, and threat intelligence to communicate performance and risk posture.
- Follows best practices for effective, actionable, and transparent security reporting.
Additionally, this servcie draws on AIBOK, CWBOK, and Eristotle competency frameworks for breadth and depth to ensure consistency, credibility, and transferability across engagements.
Key Objectives
- Establish Threat Intelligence Capabilities Aligned to Business Risk
- Build a CTI function tailored to your sector, geography, and regulatory environment
- Align intelligence priorities with organizational risk appetite and critical assets
- Ensure CTI supports strategic, operational, and tactical decision-making
- Identify and Prioritize Gaps Across the Intelligence Lifecycle
- Assess current-state capabilities across planning, collection, analysis, dissemination, and integration
- Identify gaps in sources, tooling, processes, and skills
- Prioritize investment based on risk, feasibility, and business impact
- Operationalize CTI with Processes, Platforms, and Governance
- Define governance, roles, and workflows for the intelligence function
- Deploy and integrate TIPs, feeds, and enrichment sources
- Embed intelligence into daily SOC, IR, and risk management activities
- Enhance Proactive Detection and Reduce Adversary Dwell Time
- Introduce hypothesis-driven threat hunting across the environment
- Align detection content with adversary TTPs and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Improve Decision-Making with Timely, Relevant, Enriched Intelligence
- Deliver strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence products to the right audiences
- Integrate enriched intelligence into executive, board, and operational decisions
- Support security investment, prioritization, and reporting with evidence-based insight
Business Outcomes & Benefits
- Focused Threat Awareness
- Understand which threat actors, malware families, and campaigns most threaten your business
- Prioritize defenses against the adversaries and TTPs most likely to target you
- Reduce noise by focusing on relevant, high-impact intelligence
- Proactive Security Posture
- Transition from reactive monitoring to active hunting and threat-informed defense
- Enable early detection and disruption of adversary activity
- Strengthen resilience against advanced, persistent, and targeted threats
- In-House Threat Intelligence Capability
- Build a sustainable, scalable CTI function embedded into your operating model
- Secure integration with internal teams, tooling, and workflows
- Reduced dependence on ad-hoc external intelligence and generic feeds
- Faster and Smarter Incident Response
- Enriched intelligence for faster triage, containment, and remediation
- Better context during investigations, reducing effort and uncertainty
- Stronger evidence for regulators, insurers, and executive reporting
- Smarter Investment and Reporting
- Threat-informed KPIs and metrics linking intelligence maturity to business value
- Stronger ROI on security investments through better-targeted controls
- Evidence-based narrative for boards, committees, and stakeholders
- Reduced Risk from Advanced and Emerging Threats
- Early warning of attacks targeting your sector, region, or supply chain
- Stronger defenses against ransomware, supply chain compromise, and nation-state activity
- Improved readiness for emerging threats across AI, cloud, and operational technology
- Enhanced Regulatory and Stakeholder Confidence
- Credible, evidence-based reporting on cyber risk and posture
- Demonstrable maturity for auditors, regulators, insurers, and partners
- Stronger brand, trust, and resilience in a scrutinized environment
Key Features
- Workshop-Driven and Stakeholder-Inclusive Approach
- Interviews, tabletop exercises, and documentation reviews
- Cross-functional alignment across SOC, IR, risk, and executive teams
- Tailored engagement reflecting your maturity, sector, and operating model
- Lifecycle-Aligned Assessment and Design
- Full coverage of planning, collection, analysis, dissemination, and integration
- Mapping to recognized standards such as the intelligence cycle and F3EAD
- Clear separation of strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence
- Threat Infrastructure and TTP Profiling
- Adversary profiling, malware analysis, and campaign tracking
- Mapping to MITRE ATT&CK, kill chain, and Diamond Model frameworks
- Coverage of social engineering, supply chain, and insider threat vectors
- Data Enrichment and Workflow Automation
- Enhancement of CTI through SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and vulnerability management integration
- Automated enrichment, correlation, and dissemination workflows
- Reduction of manual effort and faster, more reliable insight generation
- Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) Strategy and Integration
- Independent guidance on TIP selection and vendor evaluation
- Configuration, integration, and operationalization support
- Alignment with case management, ticketing, and collaboration tools
- Threat Hunting Enablement
- Hypothesis-driven hunting methodology and playbooks
- Analyst training, coaching, and uplift programs
- Continuous improvement of detection coverage and content
- Intelligence Products and Reporting Framework
- Strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence deliverables
- Tailored products for board, executive, SOC, and technical audiences
- Reporting cadence and governance aligned with stakeholder needs
- Alignment with Industry Standards and Eristotle Frameworks
- Aligned with NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, and intelligence community best practice
- Grounded in ISOBOK™, CWBOK, and Eristotle competency frameworks
- Consistent, credible, and transferable approach across engagements
Deliverables
Depending on the scope of the engagement, typical deliverables include:
- Intelligence & Assessment Deliverables
- Threat Landscape Report
- Tailored intelligence on industry-specific threats, attack methods, and adversary behavior
- Mapping of actors, TTPs, and campaigns most relevant to your business
- CTI Capability Maturity Assessment
- Current-state analysis across planning, collection, analysis, dissemination, and integration
- Benchmarking against peer organizations and best practice
- Threat Landscape Report
- Strategy & Design Deliverables
- Strategy and Roadmap Document
- Gap analysis, prioritization of capabilities, solution architecture, and phased implementation plan
- CTI Operating Model and Governance Framework
- Roles, responsibilities, and workflows for the intelligence function
- Integration points with SOC, IR, risk, and executive functions
- CTI Policies, Processes, and Playbooks
- Standards, procedures, and intelligence lifecycle documentation
- Strategy and Roadmap Document
- Platform & Technology Deliverables
- Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) Deployment Guide
- Best practices for selecting, integrating, and operationalizing TIPs
- Integration Architecture
- High-level and low-level design for TIP, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and related platforms
- Automation Workflow Designs
- Enrichment, correlation, and dissemination automation models
- Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) Deployment Guide
- Operational Deliverables
- Threat Hunting Playbooks
- Custom playbooks designed around your use cases, infrastructure, and risk posture
- Detection Optimization Recommendations
- Use case refinements aligned to observed adversary behavior
- Intelligence Product Templates
- Standardized formats for strategic, operational, and tactical products
- Threat Hunting Playbooks
- Executive & Reporting Deliverables
- Executive Summary Presentation
- Concise review of findings, recommendations, and strategic alignment
- Board Briefing Pack(where applicable)
- Board-level narrative on threat landscape, risk, and investment
- KPI and Metrics Framework
- Threat-informed measures for intelligence maturity and business value
- Executive Summary Presentation
How We Deliver
Our threat intelligence engagements are modular and adaptable, delivered through focused workshops, hands-on sessions, and leadership briefings. Every engagement is aligned with international best practices (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, intelligence community standards) and benchmarked against peers in your sector.
- Discovery & Scoping
- Engagement with security leadership, SOC, IR, and risk stakeholders
- Review of current CTI capabilities, tooling, and operating model
- Confirmation of scope, objectives, and success criteria
- Threat Landscape Analysis
- Research and analysis of threat actors, TTPs, and campaigns relevant to your business
- Mapping of adversary behavior to MITRE ATT&CK and kill chain frameworks
- Identification of sector, geography, and supply chain-specific threats
- Capability Assessment & Benchmarking
- Evaluation of current-state CTI across the intelligence lifecycle
- Gap analysis against peers, best practice, and regulatory expectations
- Synthesis of findings into themes, priorities, and recommendations
- Workshops & Stakeholder Engagement
- Working sessions with CTI, SOC, IR, and executive teams
- Tabletop exercises to stress-test intelligence and response integration
- Alignment with enterprise risk, governance, and operational priorities
- Design & Roadmap Development
- Target operating model, governance, and lifecycle design
- TIP and tooling strategy, integration architecture, and automation workflows
- Phased roadmap with prioritized initiatives and success measures
- Operational Rollout & Enablement
- Support with TIP deployment, configuration, and integration
- Threat hunting playbook development and analyst enablement
- Intelligence product development and dissemination workflows
- Executive & Stakeholder Engagement
- Presentation of findings, strategy, and recommendations to leadership
- Board and executive briefings on threat landscape and program value
- Support for securing sponsorship, funding, and ongoing commitment
- Handover & Continuous Improvement
- Transfer of artifacts, playbooks, and documentation to internal teams
- Knowledge transfer and coaching for CTI and SOC analysts
- Optional ongoing advisory through related Eristotle services
From foundational design to operational rollout, we help you establish a resilient, intelligence-enabled defense posture. Our consultants bring real-world experience from building CTI programs in enterprise and national security environments, so your organization benefits from proven expertise, not theoretical models.
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