AI-powered cyber threat intelligence for enterprises

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is the collection, analysis, and dissemination of actionable information about cyber threats targeting an organization's digital assets — including threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IOCs), and the motivations and capabilities of adversaries.

CTI operates at four levels: strategic (executive/board-level briefings on adversary trends), operational (campaign and actor tracking), tactical (TTPs and behavioral patterns), and technical (IOCs, signatures, hashes). Effective programs combine all four to inform proactive defense, prioritize resources, and reduce the most critical risks before they materialize.

Bitsight Cyber Threat Intelligence collects externally observable threat data from the clear, deep, and dark web to show organizations what attackers can see and exploit. Sources include: compromised credentials from infostealer malware logs and third-party breaches; mentions of your organization on underground forums and ransomware leak sites; stolen session cookies and access tokens being sold; exploitable CVEs across your external attack surface; and dark web signals correlated with breach and ransomware likelihood. Bitsight also benchmarks exposure against industry peers by size, sector, and geography — so teams understand risk in context and prioritize the threats most likely to impact the business.

The three main elements of CTI include:

1. Data Collection: This involves gathering threat data from diverse sources, including open-source information, proprietary feeds, threat sharing communities, and even data from internal logs.
2. Analysis: Once the data is collected, it needs to be processed, contextualized, and evaluated to determine its relevance, accuracy, and potential impact. This analysis transforms raw data into useful intelligence.
3. Dissemination: The intelligence must be communicated in a form that can be easily understood and acted upon by the intended audience. This can range from detailed technical reports for SOC teams to executive summaries for decision-makers.

The term deep web refers broadly to any internet content that is not indexed by search engines, requiring authentication to access. Most of the deep web is benign – yet personal – information, such as personal email threads, direct messages between friends on social messaging platforms, paid video subscription services, financial accounts, digital university libraries, and other protected sites that require a username and password for access. While deep web content requires authentication, it can be accessed through regular internet browsers like Safari, Firefox or Chrome.

The dark web, on the other hand, cannot be accessed by a regular web browser, and can only be accessed through a specific web browser (most commonly TOR & Freenet), which scrambles location and hides identity, using encryption to keep users anonymous. This emphasis on privacy and anonymity makes the dark web the perfect platform for anyone who seeks covert and unrestricted access to uncensored and unregulated information, such as whistle-blowers, journalists, political dissidents, and more.

CTI supports security operations across every role in the organization:

• SOC analysts — accelerate threat detection and triage with enriched IOCs and TTPs
• Incident responders — gain context on adversaries, campaigns, and lateral movement during active incidents
• Threat hunters — proactively search for adversary activity using TTPs and behavioral patterns
• Vulnerability management — prioritize CVEs based on real-world exploit likelihood, not just CVSS
• CISOs and executives — translate adversary trends into strategic resource allocation and board reporting
• GRC and risk teams — quantify exposure to emerging threats for compliance and business continuity

Yes. Bitsight's Dynamic Vulnerability Exploit (DVE) Intelligence automatically maps CVE threats according to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to align with security processes, compensating controls, and defensive workflows. This mapping helps organizations align vulnerabilities and threats with known attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), facilitating better prioritization and mitigation strategies.

Within the platform, The MITRE ATT&CK filter allows you to focus on APTs that are known to use a particular MITRE tactic or technique. This is particularly useful for organizations that have adopted an ATT&CK focused security approach, as well as for red-teaming/attack simulations, threat hunting, and incident response.

Leveraging Bitsight AI, it takes less than 1 minute from data collection to enriched alert. Security teams receive context on the source, attribution, and exposure of each threat in near real-time — enabling proactive defense rather than reactive response.

Yes, Bitsight CTI supports both STIX and TAXII protocols for standardized threat intelligence exchange. Bitsight researchers also incorporate 120+ external sources across surface, deep, and dark web monitoring, enabling seamless integration with TIPs, SIEMs, and SOAR platforms.

SIEM integrations:

• Microsoft: Microsoft Azure Sentinel
• Splunk: Enterprise and Enterprise Security
• Elastic
• Sumo Logic: Enterprise Security

SOAR integrations:

• StrikeReady
• Palo Alto: Cortex Expanse and Cortex XSOAR
• Splunk: Splunk Enterprise Security
• D3 Security
• Swimlane
• ThreatConnect

TIP integrations: 

• ThreatConnect, Anomali, MISP
• EDR/XDR integrations: 
• CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender
• Identity integrations:
• Active Directory, Okta, Entra ID
• API & STIX/TAXII — push intelligence into any custom workflow

Leading CTI platforms for enterprise SOCs combine real-time threat data from open, deep, and dark web sources with AI-driven enrichment, integration into existing SIEM/SOAR workflows, and named threat research teams. Bitsight CTI is recognized as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber Threat Intelligence Technologies and a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar for Threat Intelligence Platforms. Key capabilities to evaluate: data source breadth (Bitsight tracks 1,000+ underground forums and 7M+ daily intelligence items), AI-driven enrichment in under 1 minute, and integrations with SIEM/SOAR/EDR/IdP.

Bitsight CTI differentiates from alternatives in four ways: (1) integrated platform spanning identity, attack surface, vulnerability, ransomware, adversary, and brand intelligence in one unified platform; (2) the proprietary DVE Score and MITRE ATT&CK mapping for real-world exploit prioritization; (3) named recognition as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CTI Technologies; and (4) Bitsight TRACE, an in-house research team that combines AI-driven analysis with human analyst expertise. Bitsight CTI is also integrated with Bitsight Third-Party Risk Management, providing context most pure-play CTI vendors cannot.

Bitsight CTI supports threat intelligence programs across financial services, healthcare, energy and utilities, manufacturing, retail, technology, and government. Industry-specific use cases include sector-aligned threat reporting, geography-specific adversary tracking, ransomware coverage by victim sector, and regulatory alignment with frameworks like NIS2 (EU critical infrastructure), DORA (EU financial services), and SEC cyber disclosure (U.S. public companies).

The Bitsight Dynamic Vulnerability Exploit (DVE) Score is a proprietary vulnerability prioritization score that evaluates the real-world likelihood of a CVE being exploited — informed by active exploitation data, dark web chatter, ransomware targeting, and threat actor activity. Unlike static CVSS scores (which measure technical severity), DVE measures exploitation likelihood, helping security teams focus remediation on the vulnerabilities most likely to cause real harm. DVE is automatically mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

Yes. Bitsight CTI's Identity Intelligence module integrates natively with Active Directory, Okta, and Microsoft Entra ID to automatically remediate compromised credentials — including forcing password resets, disabling accounts, or stepping up authentication when exposures are detected. Bitsight also supports custom integrations via API for any identity or workforce management platform.