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Cloud-Based, Intelligent Ecosystems
Cloud-Based, Intelligent Ecosystems

Cloud-Based, Intelligent Ecosystems

Release Date: 12/10/2020

Working Group: Data Security

Today’s enterprise security world revolves around endless tools and ingestion of data points that often become confusing and unrealistic to decipher. It is difficult to gain a grasp how they impact business or the critical potential they hold in order to respond timely. The Cloud-Based, Intelligent Ecosystems paper aims towards executives in businesses whose focus is within securing their environment. The five sections presented within this paper address key areas in understanding the meaning of intelligence, the concept of how threat gathering works, securing a cloud-based, intelligent ecosystem, security business analytics, and lastly, areas of further research. 


To understand your specific threat intelligence model, one must first understand the tools currently within use, whether it be endpoint protection or other security sensors on the network. Companies must normalize and automate their internal tools to transform and extract actionable intelligence, while using external sources to reduce detection and response times. This is not a call for more tools, but rather how to use what you currently have at an optimal level. With the growing use of AI and Machine Learning, these technologies can expand the reach of tools and assist in the precision and accuracy of false positive data sets. 


Threat intelligence can be expanded over time when addressing IoT devices throughout enterprise, and how “sense, understand, act” can enhance and understand complexities within enterprise ecosystems. By also understanding other emerging technologies, such as blockchain, we can assume that the size of data will continue to move upwards. The important aspect here is capturing how to align threat intelligence to emerging technology so you do not get left behind. 

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Acknowledgements

John Yeoh
John Yeoh
Global Vice President of Research, CSA

John Yeoh

Global Vice President of Research, CSA

With over 15 years of experience in research and technology, John excels at executive-level leadership, relationship management, and strategy development. He is a published author, technologist, and researcher with areas of expertise in cybersecurity, cloud computing, information security, and next generation technology (IoT, Big Data, SecaaS, Quantum). John specializes in risk management, third party assessment, GRC, data protection, incid...

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Sean Heide
Sean Heide
Technical Research Director, CSA

Sean Heide

Technical Research Director, CSA

Jim Reavis
Jim Reavis
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, CSA

Jim Reavis

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, CSA

For over 30 years, Jim Reavis has worked in cybersecurity industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim’s innovative thinking about emerging trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many.
Jim launched Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) in 2009 and has led its global growth and position as among the most vital cybersecurity communities worldwide. Under...

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Dave Cullinane
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TruSTAR Founder and CSA Chairman

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TruSTAR Founder and CSA Chairman

Dave Cullinane is the Founder of TruSTAR Technology. Prior to TruSTAR, Dave served for 5+ years as the Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Global Fraud, Risk and Security for eBay and its many global businesses (StubHub, InternetAuction.co, GSI Commerce). He has more than 30 years of professional security experience building and managing cyber security and incident response teams.

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