ID.RA-2: Cyber threat intelligence is received from information sharing forums and sources

Establish and institutionalize contact with selected groups and associations within the security and privacy communities: To facilitate ongoing security and privacy education and training for organizational personnel; To maintain currency with recommended security and privacy practices, techniques, and technologies; and To share current security and privacy information, including threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents.

Implement a threat awareness program that includes a cross-organization information-sharing capability for threat intelligence.

Establish and maintain a cyber threat hunting capability to: Search for indicators of compromise in organizational systems; and Detect, track, and disrupt threats that evade existing controls; and Employ the threat hunting capability [Assignment: organization-defined frequency].

Receive system security alerts, advisories, and directives from [Assignment: organization-defined external organizations] on an ongoing basis; Generate internal security alerts, advisories, and directives as deemed necessary; Disseminate security alerts, advisories, and directives to: [Assignment (one or more): [Assignment: organization-defined personnel or roles] , [Assignment: organization-defined elements within the organization] , [Assignment: organization-defined external organizations] ];…

Organizations identify systems that are affected by announced software and firmware flaws including potential vulnerabilities resulting from those flaws and report this information to designated personnel with information security responsibilities. Security-relevant updates include patches, service packs, hot fixes, and anti-virus signatures. Organizations address flaws discovered during security assessments, continuous monitoring, incident response activities, and system…

There are many publicly available sources of system security alerts and advisories. For example, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) generates security alerts and advisories to maintain situational awareness across the federal government and in nonfederal organizations. Software vendors, subscription services, and industry information sharing and analysis centers (ISACs) may…