Threat Identification
What is Threat Identification?
The process of recognizing and documenting potential threats that could exploit vulnerabilities and adversely affect organizational assets.
Terms that appear alongside threat identification
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as threat identification. The number is how many controls name both.
- vulnerability 2 shared controls
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- cybersecurity 2 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on threat identification
Requirements naming threat identification across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
Management identifies and assesses threats, uses the knowledge to drive risk assessment and response and designs policies so that immediate and consequential threats are dealt with expeditiously, with procedures for obtaining, monitoring, assessing and respond...
ffiec-it-examination-handbook::IS-III.A · III.A Threat Identification and Assessment (Information Security) →A dedicated committee or team for cyber threat identification and analysis centralises and coordinates initiatives and communications, with formal processes for resolving conflicting information from sharing and analysis centres or other sources.
ffiec-cybersecurity-assessment-tool-cat::D2.MA.Ma.A.1 · D2.MA.Ma.A.1 Monitoring and Analyzing (Advanced 1) →The organization should identify and document reasonably foreseeable unintended uses (in the bank example, unlawful use of personal data);
iso-iec-42005-2025::6.3.5 · Unintended uses →The vendor identifies which attack scenarios apply to the software; this extends the threat identification in Control Objective 10.1 and is validated at the same time.
pci-ssf::4.1 · Secure Software Standard 4.1 (Critical Asset Protection) →Questions people ask about threat identification
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