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Cybersecurity professionals face unprecedented challenges as they strive to manage growing workloads amid limited budgets, inadequate staffing and an expanding attack surface. Surveys show that the majority of these professionals find their jobs more difficult than ever, with a significant number considering leaving their current positions due to the stress and demands of the job.
The value of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in predicting and mitigating potential attacks is widely recognized. However, security teams face several challenges in effectively leveraging CTI insights, and a powerful cyber defense arsenal becomes an additional burden security professionals must address to do their jobs effectively, which can further increase stress and frustration. Such issues include a lack of interoperability between cybersecurity tools, inadequate funding, and lack of time. Yet, 44% of respondents cited a lack of trained staff or skills to fully utilize CTI as their biggest obstacle.
The shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals is a long-term issue, creating a gap between available CTI information and security teams’ ability to act on it. This skills shortage creates a shortfall of approximately 4 million cybersecurity employees worldwide, exacerbating the challenges organizations face in defending against cyber threats.
Another major challenge for cybersecurity teams is the frequent requests for reports from board members, senior management, and other stakeholders. When major media outlets warn of a new malware outbreak, senior management naturally seeks immediate assurance and response from cybersecurity teams. However, producing these reports is time-consuming; data must be collected from various open sources, the information analyzed, and compiled into a comprehensive report. According to a survey, 60% of respondents spend up to 40% of their time responding to these cybersecurity news reports, time that is essential for other important tasks.
This problem is especially pronounced for managed service security providers (MSSPs), who often need to summarize and communicate findings to multiple clients simultaneously. The extensive manual work required for this reporting can further strain already overburdened teams.
Introducing Cybersixgill’s IQ Report Generator
Cybersixgill has introduced a solution that promises to provide a major burden relief: IQ Report Generator. Leveraging the power of the company’s generative AI product, Cybersixgill IQ, the tool enables security teams and MSSPs to create comprehensive CTI reports in just minutes. This innovation represents a major shift away from the traditional manual process of sifting through various intelligence sources and navigating different platforms.
IQ Report Generator leverages generative AI to quickly gather information and organize it into reports that are easy to understand for non-technical stakeholders, such as executives and C-level executives. These reports not only assess the current situation, but also provide actionable insights and recommendations for next steps. For more technical audiences, IQ Report Generator can create detailed reports tailored to your specific needs.
Various reporting functions
AI Report Generator offers several parameters that users can adjust to customize their reports, including topic, audience, format, time period, etc. This flexibility makes the reports relevant and useful for different purposes. Here are some of the types of reports you can generate:
- Incident Response Report: It details indicators of compromise, a timeline of the attack, affected systems, and recommended actions.
- Threat Intelligence Briefing: Evaluate key threat trends, emerging threats and their potential impact on your organization.
- Vendor Risk Report: Highlight risks from third-party vendors to inform decision-making.
- Postmortem Report: Summarize lessons learned, recommendations for improvement, and strategies to prevent future incidents.
- Risk Assessment Report: Assess overall cybersecurity risks, potential impacts, and mitigation strategies.
Automating the reporting process gives security teams more time to focus on preventative measures to prevent cyberattacks and better addresses skills shortages that may affect the organization. MSSPs can also more efficiently communicate risk and ROI to their clients, especially when they have to create multiple custom reports for each client organization.
The reports generated by IQ Report Generator provide more than just raw data. They also contain insights and recommendations for remediation, making them a useful tool for both strategic planning and immediate response. You can create high-level reports for executives and detailed technical reports for your security team, ensuring all stakeholders receive the information they need in a format they can understand and act on.
Conclusion
As cybersecurity threats evolve and become more sophisticated, the demand for cybersecurity professionals is only increasing. Tools like Cybersixgill’s IQ Report Generator provide a much-needed solution to help ease the pressure these professionals face. By automating the report generation process and providing actionable insights, IQ Report Generator allows security teams to focus on more important tasks, ultimately strengthening the organization’s overall cybersecurity posture.
To learn more about this innovative tool, click here to take a quick demo or contact Cybersixgill to generate your free CTI report in minutes.
