Business leaders lack understanding of threat intelligence, study warns

Business leaders are unsure what threat intelligence is or how it can help them, potentially putting organizations at increased to cyber threats, a new research paper has warned.

Launched at Infosecurity Europe 2026, the Bridging the Gap Between Threat Intelligence and Business Risk paper by Silobreaker and the SANS Institute examines the gap between threat intelligence teams and other areas of the business differ in their understanding about security risks and how to combat them.

This ‘intelligence-stakeholder gap’ means that even if an organization has a threat intelligence team which produces relevant information for the organization to use, this information might fly under the radar or be misunderstood by business leaders.

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