2026 SANS CTI Survey Report: Key Findings on CTI’s Influence Gap

The 2026 SANS CTI Survey report finds CTI broadly adopted and valued but not yet influential in executive decision-making, with small teams (often fewer than four FTEs) stretched across many use cases. It highlights CISOs’ demand for decision-ready intelligence (exploited vulnerabilities, adversary TTPs), growing AI adoption for summarization and automation, governance and legal sharing gaps, and recommends portfolio discipline, measurement, and aligning CTI outputs to stakeholder decisions to close the influence gap.