What Is A Cyber Threat Analyst?

Way back in the late 1980s, a person called RM had the idea to gauge the size of the whole internet, programs and mails included.

He decided to write a program designed to proliferate across all networks using a known bug to gain access to UNIX terminals and then copy itself and thus creating the birth of cyber threats and security.

This cyber threats or cybersecurity threats, as it was called, later, is an act of an outsider who infiltrates a system, not of their own property, and seeks to either damage or steal data, or just to disrupt the digital life of an entity, in general, using threats like DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, Data breaches and or Computer Viruses.

A Cyber Threat Analyst also known as a Cyber Intelligence Analyst are professionals in the information securities of any or all entities and by using their acquired skills and or background knowledge to service and protect an entity’s network engineering and or network administration by helping with counter activities against the cybercriminals that create and spread malicious software and the infiltration of these systems against hackers who target them

There are many benefits of having a Cyber Threat Analyst (CTA) manage your cybersecurity such as:

• Having a constant presence to protect an entity’s data and network against unauthorized access and malicious software from either inside the entity or company or outside
• Improving continuity management of the entity’s business and security information all round
• With a CTA on board stakeholder confidence in the entity or business information security is not only enhanced but improved as part of general company arrangements and policies
• Offers the correct and conclusive security controls to be in place for the sake of the companies credentials for all concerned.

Having a CTA or Cyber Intelligence system in place benefits the entity or business as having a strategic Cyber Intelligence Threat program helps with possible cyber threats by cutting down the capabilities of these hackers to use their tools and TTPs by identifying emerging risks and threats.

This is achieved, by the use of identifying the trends and patterns of these threats, provides a timely warning to all policymakers, and allows them time to decide and further action and policies.

The most common of all these threats to systems and networks are:

• BOTNETS
• DDoS
• HACKING
• MALWARE
• PHARMING
• PHISHING
• RANSOMWARE
• SPAM

However, the top five-cyber threats in order of severity would be:

1. RANSOMWARE
2. PHISHING
3. DATA LEAKAGE
4. HACKING
5. INSIDER THREATS

The companies that depend highly on CTAs are usually users of Endpoint Security’s, Network Security’s, Cyber Security’s, and or End-to-End Security’s