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3. Structured Intelligence – What Does It Even Mean?

Aaron Roberts1  
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London, UK
 

So what is structured data? At its most simple, structured data is where you have things within your collection that you can quantify or qualify for indexing, making it significantly easier to search through, sort, and eliminate erroneous or false positive information. Depending of course on what you’re looking for or what you’re trying to identify.

To put this into an intelligence context, imagine you’re conducting incident response following a major cyber attack on your organization. You might find ...

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