PM-16

Threat Awareness Program

Program Management (PM)

Baselines

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Description

Implement a threat awareness program that includes a cross-organization information-sharing capability for threat intelligence.

Discussion

Because of the constantly changing and increasing sophistication of adversaries, especially the advanced persistent threat (APT), it may be more likely that adversaries can successfully breach or compromise organizational systems. One of the best techniques to address this concern is for organizations to share threat information, including threat events (i.e., tactics, techniques, and procedures) that organizations have experienced, mitigations that organizations have found are effective against certain types of threats, and threat intelligence (i.e., indications and warnings about threats). Threat information sharing may be bilateral or multilateral. Bilateral threat sharing includes government-to-commercial and government-to-government cooperatives. Multilateral threat sharing includes organizations taking part in threat-sharing consortia. Threat information may require special agreements and protection, or it may be freely shared.

Implementation guidance

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CSF 2.0 crosswalk

DE.AE-03Information is correlated from multiple sourcesDetect

DE.AE-06Information on adverse events is provided to authorized staff and toolsDetect

DE.AE-07Cyber threat intelligence and other contextual information are integrated into the analysisDetect

ID.RA-02Cyber threat intelligence is received from information sharing forums and sourcesIdentify

ID.RA-03Internal and external threats to the organization are identified and recordedIdentify

ID.RA-05Threats, vulnerabilities, likelihoods, and impacts are used to understand inherent risk and inform risk response prioritizationIdentify