35% of IT and cybersecurity leaders are "very concerned" that their organization might be missing real threats/incidents due to the amount of alerts and data they are faced it.

44% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say there still being a lot of manual effort involved is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

Improving the capability to prioritize threats and vulnerabilities was cited by 68% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

86% of IT and cybersecurity leaders said that their organisation needs to improve its understanding of the threat landscape.

85% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say that their organisation could focus more time and energy on emerging critical threats.

72% of IT and cybersecurity leaders said they are mostly reactive to threats.

Improving decision-making with more complete, accurate, relevant, and timely information was cited by 59% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Enhancing trust in the threat intelligence vendor's capabilities to analyze and correlate information was cited by 55% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

47% of IT and cybersecurity leaders are "concerned" that their organization might be missing real threats/incidents due to the amount of alerts and data they are faced it.

59% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say it being hard to derive clear action from threat intelligence data is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

66% of IT and cybersecurity leaders state that they struggle to share threat intelligence with relevant teams.

Improving efficiency by generating easy-to-read summaries was cited most frequently (69%) by IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

When asked about the top challenges when acting on threat intelligence, 45% of CISOs said keeping pace with evolving threats.

89% agree a CISO community would enable security leaders to navigate high-stakes decisions through trusted insights and shared experiences

Organizations with a proactive approach to threat intelligence (44%) are considerably more likely to use advanced threat detection technologies over the next 12 months, compared to those with a reactive approach (56%).

When asked about the top challenges when acting on threat intelligence, 39% of CISOs said integration issues.

Over half (60%) of organizations have yet to fully integrate threat intelligence into their wider cybersecurity strategy.

Nearly all CISOs (98%) face barriers when acting on threat intelligence.

Nearly all CISOs agree threat intelligence is essential for identifying and mitigating emerging cybersecurity threats (94%).

The majority of CISOs (95%) agree being part of a threat intelligence sharing community or network improves their ability to prepare for threats.