Before Your SOC Investigates: What 16K+ Security Teams Already Know 

What if some of the threats reaching your organization’s environment had already been identified elsewhere, before your security team even started investigating them? 

Chances are, some were. 

According to ANY.RUN’s research, up to 30% of unique malicious indicators of compromise (IOCs) identified in studied Interactive Sandbox sessions had already been observed by ANY.RUN and were present in its Threat Intelligence Feeds before investigation. 

In other words, nearly one in three of those malicious indicators was already available in threat intelligence before the analysts began their investigations. 

What does this mean for SOC teams, and how can they take advantage of threat data from investigations by 16,000+ security teams? 

What Does This Data Mean for Your SOC? 

Simply put, this means that your SOC can potentially recognize malicious indicators before analysts need to investigate them manually. 

If an indicator has already been associated with malicious activity elsewhere, that threat data can help your security systems identify suspicious events earlier and provide analysts with a starting point for early detection. 

For that, threat intelligence needs to reach the security systems your team already uses, in time to influence detection and response. That’s where integrated threat intelligence comes in. 

What’s Integrated Threat Intelligence and What Does It Bring to SOC Operations? 

Integrated threat intelligence, such as TI Feeds, doesn’t require major additions to your normal SOC workflow. On the contrary, it streamlines the processes you already have. 

STIX/TAXII and integrations with your existing security solutions allow you to tap into threat data accumulated through investigations by 16,000+ SOC teams using ANY.RUN Interactive Sandbox.

Your SIEM, SOAR, TIP, EDR, or XDR solution can be enriched with continuously updated threat intelligence. 

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With the right integrations, SOC teams gain a serious advantage. They can recognize matching indicators in their telemetry early on, potentially before an alert is generated, and strengthen detection accordingly, saving time and effort on manual checks. 

But more importantly, this creates opportunities to identify malicious activity sooner and reduce risk exposure. 

So, ask yourself: How much valuable threat intelligence is available beyond your organization, and how can you put it to work before an investigation begins? 

Why Integrated Threat Intelligence Feeds Matter for Early Detection 

No SOC has unlimited resources. Cybersecurity is always a race against accelerating and multiplying threats, as well as threat actors who never sleep. With so much to investigate, security teams can’t afford to overlook threat data that’s already available. 

Relevant information may already exist. You just need timely access to it to reduce manual effort and identify potential risks earlier. Integrated threat intelligence provides: 

• Earlier detection opportunities: Security systems can correlate observed activity with known malicious indicators as events arrive. 
• More effective alert prioritization: Analysts can use existing threat context to identify which suspicious events deserve closer attention. 
• Better use of investigation capacity: Less time spent collecting basic IOC information means more time for behavioral analysis, incident validation, and response. 

Threat intelligence feeds don’t eliminate the need for investigation, but they can help teams recognize potentially malicious activity sooner and make subsequent investigations more focused. 

How to Take Full Advantage Intelligence from 16K+ SOC Teams  

An individual organization’s security systems provide visibility into its own environment, but a threat identified by one security team today may become relevant to another tomorrow. This is where collective threat intelligence provides an advantage. 

ANY.RUN draws on real-world threat investigations across a community of more than 16,000 SOC teams and 700,000 security professionals.

Its Interactive Sandbox enables analysts to examine suspicious files and URLs, observe malicious behavior, and identify associated infrastructure and indicators. 

These investigations contribute to a continuously expanding intelligence that helps security teams recognize threats beyond those already encountered in their own environments. 

ANY.RUN TI Feeds deliver continuously updated, high-confidence malicious IOCs and supporting context for integration into existing security infrastructure. 

TI Feeds support: 

• Automated threat detection: Correlating network and security telemetry with known malicious indicators. 
• Alert prioritization: Providing additional intelligence that helps identify events requiring investigation. 
• Detection enrichment: Supplying threat context to SIEM, SOAR, and other security systems. 
• More consistent response workflows: Making intelligence available to automated processes and analysts across the SOC. 

TI Feeds support STIX/TAXII 2.1, API-based delivery, and integrations with security solutions, allowing organizations to incorporate external intelligence without replacing their existing security investments. 

The IOCs in question are 99% unique, helping organizations extend their visibility with threat data that may not be available from other sources. 

And ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence Lookup puts you one search away from answers to more questions, such as what an IOC is related to and where else it has appeared. 

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The strategic advantage of threat intelligence is not simply having access to more indicators. It’s making relevant data available early enough to influence detection, prioritization, and response. 

Conclusion: Make Existing Threat Intelligence Work Earlier 

Some threats are new to an individual organization, but the indicators associated with them may already have been identified elsewhere. 

By bringing intelligence from thousands of real-world investigations into existing detection and triage workflows, SOC teams can recognize relevant malicious indicators earlier, prioritize investigations more effectively, and make better-informed response decisions. 

The goal is to make sure analysts can benefit from what is already known to reduce manual effort, detect threats earlier, and achieve lower risk exposure. 

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