Cyber threat intelligence reporting is hard. You need to pinpoint who your intelligence is for, structure it in an easy-to-consume way for that audience, and make it actionable. However, the days of struggling with disseminating threat intelligence are over. Let me introduce you to CTI Blueprints.

This revolutionary new CTI project from the geniuses behind the MITRE ATT&CK framework aims to help CTI analysts tackle the challenges of creating consistent, actionable, and high-quality CTI reports. It provides a toolset to increase the operational relevance of reports and help analysts fulfill the intelligence requirements of their organization.

Let’s jump in and learn how a standardized set of templates and a couple of simple tools can change the CTI reporting game!

CTI Blueprints is a project by MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense that aims to improve the distribution and sharing of cyber threat intelligence (CTI). The project’s developers recognized that many threat intelligence producers lacked clear guidance on creating finished intelligence that defenders could use effectively. It was left to individual threat intelligence analysts to structure their reports as they saw best, making using threat intelligence difficult.

MITRE Engenuity is a non-profit subsidiary of the MITRE Corporation that focuses on creating innovative solutions for challenges faced by cyber security and other technology-related fields. They do this by fostering collaboration between industry, academia, and government to accelerate the development of practical solutions that serve the public interest.

Here are some of the common challenges CTI analysts face when reporting intelligence:

• No threat intelligence reporting standards: There are no standardized reporting guidelines for CTI analysts to follow, making reporting a struggle for new analysts and inconsistent for everyone else.
• No structured reporting process: Reporting and distributing intelligence is currently an unstructured process that each CTI team must define by themselves. This makes collaboration and sharing intelligence difficult.