Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is becoming increasingly mainstream, with the SANS 2025 CTI Survey revealing that 93% of organizations maintain at least some in-house CTI capabilities and that more than half run dedicated teams.

The latest SANS CTI report is based on responses from 489 CTI professionals spanning the cybersecurity, government, finance and technology industries, among others. Widely regarded as a benchmark for threat intelligence practices, the report explores the operational challenges and emerging trends currently shaping the threat intelligence field.

This year’s findings show that CTI teams are increasingly integrating AI and automation into their workflows and moving toward the standardized adoption of frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. The results also point to mounting complexity and rising stakeholder expectations, with CTI teams under pressure to deliver timely, business-relevant insights while navigating risks that increasingly span cyber, physical, and geopolitical domains.

So, how can organizations turn CTI into a strategic advantage? The answer lies in embracing a unified, real-time approach to intelligence. This requires having the right tools in place to deliver actionable intelligence with speed, context and clarity. Key findings include:

CTI must adapt to converging threats

One of the report’s key takeaways is that traditional approaches to CTI, focused purely on cyber data, are no longer enough. As geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruption and physical risks increasingly intersect with cyber operations, organizations need a unified view of risk.

Silobreaker’s intelligence platform is purpose-built for this new era. It enables teams to connect cyber threat indicators with events in the physical and political world, from election-related unrest to sanctions and natural disasters – creating a broader, more actionable threat picture.

It ingests and correlates information from open, deep and dark web sources, as well as geopolitical feeds and OSINT. This lets CTI teams see how digital threats intersect with real-world developments in real time, forecast what’s coming next and, crucially, explain why that matters to the business.

Dissemination is still a bottleneck

According to the SANS report, over 70% of organizations still rely on written reports for sharing CTI, yet many CTI teams struggle to translate analysis into clear, audience-specific outputs fast enough.

Silobreaker streamlines intelligence dissemination with integrated report generation tools, prebuilt dashboards, and automated alerts that help close the gap between analysis and action. The platform’s custom-branded templates and audience-specific dashboards reduce analyst workload while ensuring consistent, professional delivery to both executive and technical stakeholders.

These capabilities are crucial, as intelligence has little value if it doesn’t reach the right decision-makers, in the right format, at the right time.

Third-party risk needs real-time monitoring

Another standout finding is that third-party risk is rising to the top of the CTI agenda. Vendors and partners are increasingly targeted by ransomware groups and APTs.

And while there’s a growing reliance on CTI to monitor third-party and supply chain risk, most organizations still rely on periodic, static reviews. But without continuous monitoring, organizations may miss early warning signs.

Silobreaker transforms third-party risk from a once-a-year review into a live intelligence stream. Watchlists, real-time breach alerts and curated supplier insights help teams track threat actor activity, data leaks and vulnerabilities affecting vendors and service providers. Geotagged intelligence and sector-specific dashboards give context and prioritization – not just that a supplier is at risk, but when, where, how and why.

Silobreaker brings it all together

The 2025 SANS CTI Survey makes one thing clear. The role of CTI is evolving, and the tools must evolve with it. Teams need help producing intelligence that’s fast, contextual and aligned to business risk. Silobreaker was designed for exactly that mission.

By addressing the industry’s most pressing CTI challenges, from cross-domain visibility to third-party monitoring and streamlined reporting, Silobreaker empowers analysts to do more than collect data. It helps them deliver intelligence that drives action.

Read the full SANS CTI Survey 2025 report here, and to learn how Silobreaker can help you deliver actionable, all-domain intelligence at speed, visit silobreaker.com.