Chapter 5

Translating Objectives into Needs, or “Why Drives What”

Abstract

We illustrate the need to know your mission activities in order to help define your intelligence needs. In other words, the objectives that have been defined, or the business need that you are trying to meet, are not the same as a mission activity.

Keywords

DDoS attacks
compliance and regulatory risks
data loss prevention
DLP
cyber awareness training
social engineering
TTPs
data exfiltration
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
indicators of compromise (IOCs)
Before reading any further, we should delve down into making a subtle but important distinction: The objectives that you have defined, or the business need you are trying to meet, are not the same as a mission activity. ...

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