The Challenges Of Operationalizing Threat Intelligence
Security Boulevard, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Most security teams subscribe to more threat‑intel feeds than they can digest, yet attackers keep winning. Cyware's Jawahar Sivasankaran explains why: Outside the Fortune 500 and federal agencies, many organizations still treat cyberthreat intelligence (CTI) as another inbox rather than an engine for action.
They know intel is 'absolutely critical,' but legacy tools and skill gaps force them to juggle three-or more-separate products just to turn a single indicator into a blocking rule.
The sticking points are painfully familiar. Mid‑tier firms run on 10‑to‑15‑year‑old security stacks and lack staff who can correlate signals, enrich context and push updates into firewalls or SOAR playbooks. Without that connective tissue, intel piles up while real threats slip through.