Improving Cybersecurity and Productivity: How Threat Intelligence from Recorded Future Drives ROI Through Increased Efficiency

This blog post presents survey-based findings on how Recorded Future’s threat intelligence platform improves security team efficiency and delivers ROI. Customers report significant time savings across alert triage, investigations, threat analysis, brand abuse mitigation, and vendor evaluation—totaling over 100 hours saved per week and about $290,237 in annual productivity gains. The report cites faster threat identification (65%), improved resilience, and reduced cyber risk, attributing benefits to automation, streamlined workflows, and actionable intelligence that shift efforts from manual tasks to higher-value activities, with some customers quoting substantial efficiency improvements and an overall reported ROI of 351.3%.