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Connecting the Dots

Abstract

Connecting the dots is a symbolic way of stating we want to discuss all the topics within the preceding chapters by interweaving other related topics to show the value threat forecasting has for your organization. This chapter is broken into five main sections ranging from the comparing and contrasting of historical threat reporting and threat forecasting, to real-world examples where threat forecasting played a role or could have played a role in some of the major data breaches in recent time.

The first section discusses historical threat reporting and its relationship to threat forecasting. When discussing this topic with fellow colleagues in the information security industry, there was an automatic assumption ...

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