Rebecca Lumley

Rebecca Lumley is a Strategic Threat Intelligence Analyst at Hunt & Hackett, specialising in research, geopolitical analysis and curation of threat intelligence across the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. Prior to joining Hunt & Hackett, Rebecca worked as a journalist in Ireland, where she conducted OSINT investigations related to public safety threats, cybersecurity, and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI).

Talk: Needle, Meet Haystack: Curating high-quality threat intelligence at scale (with Tom Moester) [TLP:CLEAR]

The threat intelligence landscape is awash with data, yet most MDR providers remain starved of actionable intelligence. Generic, context-poor feeds dominate the market, delivering volume without the behavioural specificity needed to drive meaningful detection engineering or targeted threat hunting. For organisations operating outside the US, there is an additional concern: an over-reliance on American intelligence feeds raises genuine questions of data sovereignty and geopolitical relevance. Your view of the threat landscape ends up reflecting someone else's priorities, and when those shift, yours does too.

This session offers a practical case study in addressing both challenges: how we built a sovereign-ready, context-rich threat intelligence curation capability from the ground up, and how AI enabled us to scale without sacrificing the quality and specificity needed to make intelligence truly actionable.