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2025 STATE OF THREAT INTELLIGENCE
Introduction
Every year, enterprise organizations increasingly rely on threat intelligence to build proactive defenses against emerging cyberthreats. In 2025, this trend reaches new heights as state-sponsored threats, cybercrime, and geopolitical issues escalate, creating more substantial opportunities for business disruption.
Additionally, AI has lowered the barrier to entry for threat actors, enabling more bad actors to scale attacks in terms of both volume and sophistication. To stay ahead of these issues and prevent their security teams from burning out, organizations need the ability to find the signal in the noise.
Enterprises are increasing threat intelligence spend as security shifts from reactive defense to a holistic, intelligence-driven strategy. Modern intelligence helps detect attacks sooner, prioritize critical risks, and respond faster – strengthening vulnerability management, incident response, and board-level risk decisions.
Rich LaTulip, North America Field CISO, Recorded Future
As a force multiplier, threat intelligence enhances existing security tools, informs strategic planning, and mitigates risk to the business’ s assets and reputation. Threat intelligence is top of mind for many enterprise security teams as they work to advance their organization’ s threat intelligence maturity, consider vendor investments and consolidations, and plan how to allocate their cybersecurity budgets.
This report aims to uncover the current state of threat intelligence. Incorporating data from 615 cybersecurity executives, managers, and practitioners, this report reveals enterprise organizations’ use cases, challenges, and future investment plans.
The data is clear. Over the past year, threat intelligence has become more critical for enterprise cybersecurity. In 2025, organizations are more likely to have dedicated threat intelligence teams, allocate a larger percentage of their cybersecurity budget to threat intelligence, and consider their threat intelligence maturity level advanced. •
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