Operational Cyber Threat Intelligence

This report presents Recorded Future’s Threat Intelligence Maturity Model, a roadmap for evolving security programs from reactive alert handling to autonomous, intelligence-led operations. It addresses the information overload problem and defines four stages—Reactive, Proactive, Predictive, and Autonomous—each with characteristics, challenges, actionable steps, and KPIs, emphasizing the role of integrated platforms, context, and automation to operationalize threat data and improve speed, accuracy, and business alignment.