How Global Threat Intelligence Vendors Address the Nuances of Regional Markets

This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of how different types of threat intelligence (TI) vendors offer their TI offerings and meet customer needs. Threat intelligence becomes a requisite today to empower faster threat investigations and efficacy of security operation centers, thus enhance the proactiveness of organization's cyberdefense capabilities. It also has included three detailed vendor examples to illustrate how the vendors position their TI offerings and go-to-market plans for their threat intelligence. "When studying various types of threat intelligence vendors, it is interesting to see big influence of security services vendors like global systems integrators, telecommunication providers, MSSPs in the TI market. It implies the importance of process and people, in addition to the technology and platform in order to make TI function powerful and actionable," says Cathy Huang, research director, Worldwide Security Services at IDC.