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title: "Intelligence Requirement Categories"
slug: "intelligence-requirement-categories"
description: "This article describes how to view, create, and manage Intelligence Requirement categories on the System Settings screen in ThreatConnect (System Administrators only)."
tags: ["Administrator"]
updated: 2024-07-10T03:13:49Z
published: 2024-07-10T03:13:50Z
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# Intelligence Requirement Categories

## Overview

An Intelligence Requirement (IR) is a collection of topics or a research question reflecting an organization’s cyber threat–related priorities that guides a security or threat intelligence team’s research and analysis efforts. When [creating an IR](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/creating-intelligence-requirements) or updating an existing one in ThreatConnect®, you can choose a category to associate with the IR.

IR categories provide greater control over how to organize your IRs. For example, you can use categories to organize IRs based on different stakeholder groups (e.g., SecOps, HR, Finance) or threat actor types (e.g., Nation State, Hacktivist).

System Administrators can view, create, and manage IR categories on the **System Settings** screen.

## Before You Start

### User Roles

- To view, create, edit, and delete IR categories, your user account must have a [System role](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/threatconnect-system-roles-and-permissions) of Administrator.

## Viewing IR Categories

Follow these steps to view IR categories on your ThreatConnect instance.

1. Hover over **Settings![Settings icon](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Settings%20icon.png)**on the top navigation bar and select **System Settings**.
2. Select the **Categories**tab (Figure 1).  
![Figure 1_Intelligence Requirement Categories_7.3.0](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Figure%201_Intelligence%20Requirement%20Categories_7.3.0.png)

If at least one IR category is created, the **Categories** screen will display a table with the following columns:

- **Category Value**: The IR category’s value.
- **Description**: The IR category’s description.
- **Usage Count**: The number of IRs on your ThreatConnect instance that use the IR category.

## Creating IR Categories

Follow these steps to create IR categories on your ThreatConnect instance:

1. Hover over **Settings![Settings icon](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Settings%20icon.png)**on the top navigation bar and select **System Settings**.
2. ****Select the **Categories** tab.
3. Click **+ Add Category Value**.
4. Fill out the fields on the **Add Category Value**window (Figure 2) as follows.

![Figure 2_Intelligence Requirement Categories_7.3.0](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Figure%202_Intelligence%20Requirement%20Categories_7.3.0.png)
  - **Category Value**: Enter the value of the IR category.
  - **Description**: (Optional) Enter a description of the IR category.
5. Click **Save** on the **Add Category Value** window.

## Managing IR Categories

Follow these steps to manage IR categories on your ThreatConnect instance:

1. <meta charset="utf-8">Hover over **Settings![Settings icon](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Settings%20icon.png)**on the top navigation bar and select **System Settings**.
2. Select the **Categories** tab.
3. Select one of the following options in the rightmost column for an IR category:
  - Click **Edit![Edit button_Details card_Details screen](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Edit%20button_Details%20card_Details%20screen.png)**to edit the IR category’s value or description.
  - Click **Delete![Delete button_Details screen](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Delete%20button_Details%20screen.png)**to delete the IR category.ImportantIf an IR category is being used by at least one IR object, the **Delete![](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Delete%20button_Details%20screen.png)**option will not be available.

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