16% of security services providers still rely on spreadsheets as their main tool.

90% of security services providers say they face challenges differentiating and standing out in a crowded market.

Just one-in-four security services providers met their recurring revenue targets in 2024.

One in three security services providers struggle to consistently show value and ROI.

87% of security services providers say automation is a high priority.

59% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say it being hard to derive clear action from threat intelligence data is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

80% of IT and cybersecurity leaders said that threat intelligence providers should offer information sources that are both broad and deep.

Providing actionable recommendations and next steps to uplevel junior analysts was cited by 63% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

37% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say stale information is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

Simplifying the process of searching and querying data for relevant information was cited by 53% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

61% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say too many feeds is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

86% of IT and cybersecurity leaders agreed that they "must" use AI to improve their ability to operationalise threat intelligence.

Enhancing trust in the threat intelligence vendor's capabilities to gather new sources of information was cited by 47% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

49% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say the difficulty in determining which intelligence applies is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

More than 80% of organisations already use threat intelligence or are planning to across eight major use-cases.

60% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say too few analysts is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

80% of IT and cybersecurity leaders said their senior leadership team underestimates threats to the organisation.

59% of IT and cybersecurity leaders say it being difficult to verify the validity and/or relevance of threats is a challenge in actioning threat intelligence.

Enabling the ability to foccus on higher-priority tasks via time saved was cited by 60% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.

Making threat intelligence more accessible to different stakeholders was cited by 68% of IT and cybersecurity leaders as a benefit of using AI in threat intelligence.