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Security Operations · Foundational

Threat Feed

A continuous stream of threat data, typically indicators of compromise, delivered for integration into security tools.

Definition

Feeds may be open source (such as abuse.ch, AlienVault OTX), commercial, government (such as CISA AIS) or community-shared through ISACs. Feed quality varies, so organizations evaluate relevance, accuracy and timeliness and manage indicator expiration to avoid false positives.

Example

Importing a daily abuse.ch URLhaus feed into the proxy blocklist.

Exam tip

Feeds provide data, not finished intelligence; evaluate confidence and relevance.

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