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Threat Analysis

What is Threat Analysis?

The process of examining threat sources, their capabilities, motivations, and historical patterns to understand the threat environment.

Risk Management

What the standards actually require on threat analysis

Requirements naming threat analysis across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

NIST SP 800-1812 controls

Identifies and assesses insider threat activity and produces the findings that start a response.

NICE-PD-WRL-005 · Insider Threat Analysis

Set the scope of all system safeguards testing and assessment broadly enough to include the automated systems and controls that the program and the current cybersecurity threat analysis indicate are necessary to identify risks and vulnerabilities that could en...

CFTC-SS-35 · Scope of Testing and Assessment
ISO/SAE 214341 control

Assets and their cybersecurity properties (confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity, authorisation, non-repudiation) are identified as the basis for threat analysis.

21434-15.3 · Asset Identification (TARA Step 1)

Questions people ask about threat analysis

What is Threat Analysis?
The process of examining threat sources, their capabilities, motivations, and historical patterns to understand the threat environment.
Why is Threat Analysis important for compliance?
Threat Analysis is a key concept in Risk Management. Understanding threat analysis helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Threat Analysis?
Threat Analysis appears in the requirement text of NIST SP 800-181, CFTC System Safeguards (17 CFR 37, 38, 39, 49), ISO/SAE 21434, ITU-T X.805 - Security Architecture for End-to-End Communications. Across these standards we have identified 5 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Threat Analysis?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how threat analysis applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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