The Trucking Industry’s Threat Intelligence Gap
The Trucking Industry’s Threat Intelligence Gap
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Publish Date: 2026-05-22 16:10:00
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The trucking industry has no shortage of cybersecurity reports and cargo crime statistics. What it lacks is timely, operational intelligence that fleets can actually use.
When I was a driver, I would hear from other drivers that a particular truck stop had seen a rash of cargo thefts and was best avoided or, at best, only used during daylight hours. I’d act accordingly and plan my route to avoid stopping there.
Those exchanges were threat intelligence sharing at a small scale. The trucking community has historically been good at this kind of sharing. We look out for each other.
I have spent the last few columns addressing specific threats, such as deepfakes, social engineering, and cyber-enabled cargo theft. This month, let’s look at how the industry tracks and shares information about those threats.
Why? Our current approach to threat intelligence sharing is leaving us exposed.
What is Threat Intelligence?
I’ll start with what good threat intelligence is not. It is not an endless feed of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures that may or may not apply to your operation. It is not a movie-style wall of monitors with blinking red lights on a map.
Good threat intelligence answers three questions: What is happening? Who is doing it? What should we do about it?
Actionable threat intelligence is relevant, structured information about what the bad actors are doing, how they are doing it, who they are targeting right now, and how to stop them.
When all of these answers come from within the industry being targeted, the intelligence is exponentially more useful than general threat intelligence sources.
But even this type of quality threat intelligence is only as good as the way it is shared. If it stays with those who collected it, it does nothing to help the community make better decisions about the kinds of controls to put in place. It does nothing to prevent others from being successfully attacked in the same way.
