Intelligence requirements
Define the assets, technologies, and risk questions the research needs to address.
Utilities Studio / Cybersecurity
Threat intelligence services
Know which threats need action in your environment.
Assess relevant threat activity, vulnerability research, and external exposure. Turn intelligence into specific detection, testing, and remediation decisions.
You need to know whether this threat changes your priorities.
If you lead security, another vulnerability headline does not tell you whether to interrupt the engineering roadmap. We assess the information against your technologies and exposure. The briefing explains what applies to your environment, the supporting evidence, and the next defensive action.
The assessment
Threat intelligence services
Threat intelligence evaluates information about attacker activity and security threats in the context of your organization. We start with the technologies, assets, and decisions that matter to your team. The work connects relevant public intelligence and exposure signals to defensive actions, with the sources and limits of the assessment made clear.
Inside the scope
Relevant threat research
Review public reporting and vulnerability research for evidence that applies to your environment.
Exposure context
Examine relevant external signals and connect them to the systems and business functions in scope.
Defensive actions
Recommend specific detection reviews, validation work, or remediation based on the findings.
What your team receives
- Relevant threat briefing
- Exposure and attack-path context
- Recommended defensive actions
Working with your team
From scope to remediation.
Agree the scope
Tell us what is driving the work and which systems matter. We agree access, exclusions, and operational limits, including who to contact if the assessment uncovers an urgent issue.
Investigate and document
Assess the systems in scope and document the evidence. Findings explain the affected assets and business impact, with the limits of the investigation made clear.
Review the next actions
Review the findings with the people responsible for fixing them. Work through priorities and questions about remediation. The proposal sets out any follow-up verification.
What are you paying for?
Intelligence requirements, sources, analysis depth, reporting cadence and integration into security workflows.
Planning around your deadline
The first step defines intelligence requirements. Research and reporting cadence then follow the agreed use cases rather than an arbitrary volume of feeds.
The practitioner behind the work
Led by Sheeraz Ali.
Sheeraz Ali is our Head of Cybersecurity. His work spans application, cloud, network, and AI assessments. His personal track record includes leading pentests at Cobalt and building the internal pentest programme at SolarWinds.
Read Sheeraz's security backgroundSheeraz's personal track record
- Pentest engagements at Cobalt
- 245
- Vulnerabilities identified at Cobalt
- 1,592
- CVEs discovered
- 28+
- Machines and labs authored at Hack The Box
- 300+
His website lists OSCP, CRTP, CRTE, CREST CRT and CPSA, CBBH, and CKA.
At SolarWinds, he delivered 120+ internal pentests. As CTO at Pwned Labs, he built a platform serving 40,000+ practitioners. He co-developed Mobexler, selected for Black Hat Arsenal, and presented research at Nullcon and c0c0n.
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Questions before you book.
What makes the reporting specific to our business?
The scope starts with your assets, technologies and risk questions. Findings should explain their relevance to that environment and the action your team can take.
Strategic vs. tactical threat intelligence: which is useful?
Strategic intelligence supports decisions about business exposure and investment. Tactical intelligence supports detection and investigation of adversary activity. Start with the decision or workflow you need to improve, then choose the information and reporting format.
Will adding more threat feeds improve our security?
Not necessarily. Information is useful when it is relevant, assessed and connected to an action. Our team focuses on the context your analysts and risk leaders need, rather than adding alerts without a clear owner.
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All cybersecurity servicesWhat do you need to get moving?
Tell us what your team needs to resolve, which systems are involved, and any deadline. We will work through the scope and reporting needs with you.