All communication must be driven from the top down in building a cyber intelligence capability. This begins with executives buying into the idea that multiple sources of information that are consolidated and presented in a manner that impacts their decisions are important. If executives do not understand the foundation of building this capability, then collaboration for a cyber intelligence program will risk only using information from informal communications.
The following are the steps to strategic cyber intelligence collaboration:
- High-level support for a cyber intelligence capability among executives and communicated to the organization
- Policy makers and enterprise architects ensuring that collaboration methods are developed and documented
- Prioritization of information collection requirements
- Means to aggregate multiple information feeds from the intelligence processes
- Ability to process information and produce dashboards that help define decision making
Let's take a look at each of the layers and get a better understanding.