Threat intelligence has shifted from a tactical defensive tool to a strategic, enterprise-wide capability used to inform board-level decisions, procurement, risk tolerance, and incident response planning. Recorded Future’s 2025 report shows widespread adoption—83% run full-time intel teams and organizations use intelligence across security, GRC, and executive functions. #RecordedFuture #2025StateOfThreatIntelligence
Keypoints
- Threat intelligence is evolving from a primarily defensive, SOC-focused tool to a strategic asset used across the enterprise, including by boards and executive teams.
- Recorded Future’s 2025 report indicates 83% of organizations run full-time threat intelligence teams, with broad daily/weekly operational use.
- Threat intelligence now informs high-level business decisions such as vendor selection, technology purchases, geographic expansion, and insurance choices.
- Adoption spans multiple functions: security operations, incident response, risk management, vulnerability management, GRC, fraud, physical security, and marketing/communications.
- Organizations use intelligence to shift focus from “are we secure?” to “how much risk can we tolerate?”—enabling measurable risk tolerance and prioritization.
- Survey statistics: ~65% say intel supports security tech purchases, 58% use it for risk assessment of business initiatives, and 53% for incident response resource allocation.
- Threat intelligence strengthens enterprise agility and resilience against advanced threats, supply-chain attacks, and regulatory changes by enabling dynamic risk models.
MITRE Techniques
- [Tactic not specified] No specific MITRE ATT&CK techniques are mentioned in the article – the article discusses strategic uses and governance of threat intelligence rather than particular adversary techniques or procedures.
Indicators of Compromise
- [None ] The article does not provide technical indicators such as IP addresses, domains, or file hashes; it focuses on organizational adoption and strategic use of threat intelligence.
Read more: https://www.recordedfuture.com/blog/ti-from-soc-to-c-suite