The target audience is by far the most influential piece in defining the right data dissemination system. Understanding your users helps you to structure your data in a way that is easy and fast to access. Let's take an example. Imagine you are working in a cyber-threat-intel-sharing domain and you have a simple data model:
Let's walk through this quickly. The preceding diagram depicts that there are four top-level objects or entities in your data model:
- Vulnerability
- Campaign
- Threat Actor
- Indicator
Each of these entities will have their own set of properties.