> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.iblue.team/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://www.iblue.team/opencti/what-is-cti-opencti.md).

# What is CTI/OpenCTI?

> Threat intelligence is **data that is collected, processed, and analyzed to understand a threat actor’s motives, targets, and attack behaviors**. Threat intelligence enables us to make faster, more informed, data-backed security decisions and change their behavior from reactive to proactive in the fight against threat actors.

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