Introducing the 2025 State of Threat Intelligence Report: Threat Intelligence Shifts from Defense to Strategy

The 2025 State of Threat Intelligence Report, based on a survey of 615 security professionals, finds growing enterprise reliance on threat intelligence for strategic planning and investment, increasing budgets (with most planning to spend more in 2026), and improving maturity. However, organizations still face challenges such as poor tool integration, vendor credibility and cost concerns, and are trending toward vendor consolidation while prioritizing capabilities that support broad use cases and measurable outcomes like faster detection and response.