The Cost of Finishing: Measuring the True Cost of Threat Intelligence

Key Highlights:

• A practical framework for measuring finish rate, cost per finished outcome, and coverage dependency
• Why traditional CTI metrics often measure activity and throughput rather than business impact
• How analyst labor and specialized knowledge shape the true economics of threat intelligence
• Three levers for improving efficiency: compress correlation, encode methodology, and remove manual triggers
• How to account for human oversight and governance when introducing agentic workflows
• A 90-day approach for establishing a baseline, testing one change, and building an evidence-based efficiency case

Whether you’re a CISO, threat intelligence leader, SOC manager, security operations professional, or decision-maker responsible for cybersecurity investment, this whitepaper provides a practical way to understand what intelligence outcomes actually cost and where automation can make a measurable difference.