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Cybersecurity isn’t one-size-fits-all. But the way we use threat intelligence often is. We buy tools. We subscribe to feeds. We copy others’ detections. But we rarely pause to ask: is this about us?

Here’s a more personal, strategic way to use CTI in your day-to-day defense.

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Know your industry threats
Start by asking: who are the top 3 enemies in your sector? Which actors have hit businesses like yours in the last year?

Know who’s coming for you
You don’t have to worry about every APT. But you do need to worry about the ones whose motives match your business.

Know your logic, not just your assets
What’s the logic behind your business? Where is trust concentrated? Where do things break if targeted?

Know your surface
Your real perimeter isn’t just your firewall. It’s your cloud console, your misconfigured S3, your forgotten subdomain.

Know what’s probable, not just possible
Threat models help here. So do red teams. But so does reflection.

Know where it begins
Sometimes the threat starts in your inbox. Sometimes in a vendor’s GitHub. Rarely where you expect.

Wrap-up: Threat intelligence works best when it becomes part of how you think. Less about feeds. More about fit.

Let’s stop drowning in noise. Let’s make it personal again.