International Business Machines Corporation

Kevin Tabb

Kaushal Kiran Kapadia

Sulakshan Vajipayajula

Ilgen Banu Yuceer

Stephen Cameron Will

Identifying cyber adversary behavior on a computer network is provided. Individual security events are received from multiple threat intelligence data sources. A security incident corresponding to an attack on at least one element of the computer network, the security incident being described by the individual security events received from the multiple threat intelligence data sources, is matched to a defined cyber adversary objective in a structured framework of a plurality of defined cyber adversary objectives and a related technique associated with the defined cyber adversary objective used by a cyber adversary in the attack. A set of mitigation actions is performed on the computer network based on matching the security incident corresponding to the attack on the computer network to the defined cyber adversary objective and the related technique.

Identifying cyber adversary behavior

Prioritizing security incidents for analysis is provided. A set of security information and event management data corresponding to each of a set of security incidents is retrieved. A source weight of a security incident and a magnitude of the security incident are used to determine a priority of the security incident within the set of security incidents. A local analysis of the security incident is performed based on the retrieved set of security information and event management data corresponding to the security incident and the determined priority of the security incident.

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