NOTE: Expressing the confidence or the lack of it in an analysis is a critical step to help a partner or a third-party to check your hypotheses and conclusions.
- Allow receiving organisations to filter, classify and score the information in an automated way based on related tags
- Information with low-confidence can still be shared and reach communities or organisations interested in such information without impacting organisations filtering out by increased confidence level
- Support counter analyses and competitive analyses to validate hypotheses expressed in original reporting
TIP: MISP taxonomies contain an exhaustive list of confidence levels including words of https://www.misp-project.org/taxonomies.html#_estimative_language[estimative probability] or confidence in analytic judgment.
TIP: threat-intelligence.eu includes an overview of the https://www.threat-intelligence.eu/methodologies/[methodologies and process to support threat intelligence].