What is Threat Intelligence?

Definition

Threat intelligence sits between raw data and actionable defense. Where raw OSINT might tell you 'this IP belongs to ASN X', threat intel tells you 'this IP is part of an active phishing campaign targeting financial-services customers, with known TTPs A/B/C, attributed with medium confidence to threat actor Y'. CTI providers (Mandiant, Recorded Future, ThreatConnect, ESET, etc.) curate this picture and deliver it via feeds, reports, and platform integrations.

OSINT and CTI overlap but aren't the same. OSINT provides the raw inputs: who registered the domain, where the IP geolocates, whether the username appears across forums. CTI takes those inputs, correlates with attack telemetry, and produces narrative reports about specific threats. Skopio fits in the OSINT layer — we deliver the data inputs that feed CTI workflows. For every flagged indicator (IP, domain, hash, wallet) Skopio returns enrichment context in one report. Pair with a CTI provider for the curated threat narratives.

Real-world examples

• 1

  A SOC analyst flags a suspicious IP in their SIEM; Skopio's IP-category enrichment returns geo, ASN, abuse score, port-scan history, and threat-feed correlations in <2 seconds

• 2

  A threat researcher pivots from one phishing domain to find related infrastructure via Skopio's domain category (WHOIS + CT logs + DNS history)

• 3

  An incident responder traces ransomware payments through Skopio's wallet category, identifying exchange-deposit clusters

• 4

  A CTI team correlates a credential-stuffing campaign's source emails against Skopio's breach-corpus index to identify the leaked source dataset

• 5

  A security writer uses Skopio's username category to investigate a public threat-actor pseudonym across forums