Threat Intelligence Sharing Platforms: An Exploratory Study of Software Vendors and Research Perspectives

In the last couple of years, organizations have demonstrated an increased willingness to exchange information and knowledge regarding vulnerabilities, threats, incidents and mitigation strategies in order to collectively protect against today’s sophisticated cyberattacks. As a reaction to this trend, software vendors started to create offerings that facilitate this exchange and appear under the umbrella term “Threat Intelligence Sharing Platforms”. To which extent these platforms provide the needed means for exchange and information sharing remains unclear as they lack a common definition, innovation in this area is mostly driven by vendors and empirical research is rare. To close this gap, we examine the state-of-the-art software vendor landscape of these platforms, identify gaps and present arising research perspectives. Therefore, we conducted a systematic study of 22 threat intelligence sharing platforms and compared them. We derived eight key findings and discuss how existing gaps should be addressed by future research

Post-Merger IT Integration Success and Performance Measurement: A Systematic Literature Study

M&A is a strategy of growth for organizations with specific goals and benefits. The benefits are realized during the process of combining IT divisions from two or more organizations. We investigate how success of IT integration in M&A post-merger scenarios can be measured using key performance indicators (KPI). We identified 25 unique benefits of IT integration in a structured literature review (SLR) and categorized them by sources of synergies: strategic & managerial aspects, technology consolidation-related savings & synergies, and synergy through common organizational culture & staff retention. As the literature offers no definition for IT integration success, we defined it as the realization of chosen benefits and the avoidance of deficiencies while staying on budget and time