How Top SOCs Defend Against Emerging Threats with Live Attack Data
Top-tier Security Operations Centers understand a fundamental truth: prevention beats reaction every time. The most successful cybersecurity tactics don’t wait for attacks to succeed; they intercept threats during their earliest phases using live intelligence from active cyber campaigns. This proactive approach transforms security from a reactive expense into a strategic advantage.
The Intelligence Advantage: What Fuels SOCs’ Performance
The threat intelligence data that backs up this approach must meet three non-negotiable standards:
- Currency: Attack patterns evolve hourly. Yesterday’s intelligence creates today’s vulnerabilities, leaving organisations exposed to active campaigns.
- Precision: Every false alert drains resources and erodes team effectiveness. Elite SOCs demand surgical accuracy that eliminates noise and amplifies genuine threats.
- Depth: Surface-level indicators create dangerous blind spots. Comprehensive threat profiles enable decisive action when seconds matter most.
This data discipline drives measurable business outcomes: dramatically reduced breach probability, optimised security spending, and rapid containment when incidents occur.
Threat Intelligence Feeds: What Makes Data Actionable
Threat intelligence operates as the central nervous system of advanced security programs, with data feeds delivering continuous streams of actionable information on threats directly into security platforms. These intelligence pipelines create multiple layers of organisational protection:
- Immediate threat correlation against current attack campaigns,
- Native integration with enterprise security technologies,
- Rich contextual analysis enabling rapid threat assessment,
- Ultra-low false positive rates preserving team focus and budget efficiency.
ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence Feeds represent the gold standard for live attack intelligence. Their unique advantage is data sourced directly from active investigations conducted by over 15,000 security organisations, analysing real threats through ANY.RUN’s Interactive Sandbox.
ANY.RUN’s Live Intelligence Ecosystem
Modern cyber criminals operate at a scale, launching coordinated campaigns against entire industry verticals, geographic regions, and organisations sharing common attack surfaces. The threats targeting your competitors today will pivot to your infrastructure tomorrow. Leading SOCs leverage this reality by tapping into collective defence intelligence that aggregates real-world attack data from thousands of simultaneous investigations.
ANY.RUN’s intelligence ecosystem delivers premium-grade indicators of compromise, including malicious IPs, domains, and URLs, extracted directly from live malware analysis sessions. This is much more efficient than depending on post-incident reporting with outdated indicators. Fresh IOCs add up every two hours, ensuring security teams receive intelligence on threats actively circulating in current attack campaigns.
This real-time intelligence delivery ensures SOC analysts can identify and neutralise emerging threats during their initial reconnaissance phases. The sandbox-derived intelligence includes rich behavioural context that accelerates both incident response workflows and proactive threat hunting operations.
How Live TI Feeds Transform Security Operations
ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence Feeds enable measurable operational improvements across multiple security functions:

- Advanced Threat Prevention: Fresh IOCs enable threat identification during attack preparation phases, preventing successful compromise and eliminating costly incident response activities.
- Operational Efficiency Gains: Near-perfect accuracy rates allow security teams to focus exclusively on legitimate threats, dramatically improving productivity while reducing operational overhead and analyst burnout.
- Rapid Response Capabilities: Comprehensive behavioural intelligence enables immediate threat characterisation, reducing investigation cycles from hours to minutes and minimising potential damage.
- Proactive Hunt Operations: Detailed contextual data powers advanced threat hunting programs, enabling teams to identify sophisticated attack campaigns and persistent threats before they achieve their objectives.
- Security Investment Optimisation: By eliminating false positives and accelerating response workflows, organisations maximise returns on existing security technology investments while reducing staffing requirements.
Building Resilient Defence Architecture
Modern enterprises cannot afford reactive security postures. System downtime, data compromise, and brand damage impose severe financial penalties that often exceed security investment costs. ANY.RUN’s Threat Intelligence Feeds provide SOC teams with continuous access to high-fidelity IOCs derived from real-world attack investigations across 15,000 participating organisations.
This collective intelligence approach enables early threat detection capabilities, rapid response execution, and comprehensive risk mitigation.