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Organizations invest heavily in threat intelligence, yet the return remains unclear. We surveyed 100 security professionals across 35+ industries in 6 countries.
The result: the systems built within the Feed Economy aren't delivering the outcomes they expected.
The data that follows in this e-book comes from a survey of 100 security professionals conducted by Malanta between September and November 2025. The respondents represent a cross-section of security leadership across enterprise organizations - 22% at the executive level (CISO, VP, or CXO), 28% as directors, 35% as managers or senior managers, and 15% as team leads or senior individual contributors.
Key findings
- 71% of organizations report multiple overlapping feeds, and 100% struggle to connect signals to real threats
- 84% rely on manual or reactive threat intelligence processes; only 31% have fully automated ingestion and blocking
- 91% track MTTR and 89% track MTTD, yet only 12% track prevention-oriented metrics and 0% measure pre-attack disruption
- 68% of respondents spend 1 to 2 hours weekly on indicator validation alone; 17% spend several hours daily
- 50% cite detection gaps as the barrier to preventing attacks, versus only 33% citing resource constraints
- Top demands: actionable context (82%), earlier visibility (78%), reduced noise (74%), automated prioritization (68%), prevention-oriented metrics (65%)
What is inside
- Executive Summary
- The Survey: Behind the Scenes
- Introduction: The Feed Economy
- The Manual Reality
- The Measurement Bias
- The Detection Ceiling
- What Enterprises Actually Want
- Beyond the Feed Economy
Frequently asked questions
What is the Feed Economy?
The Feed Economy is the disconnect between how much threat data flows in and how much risk is actually reduced. Intelligence is aggregated, alerts are enriched, and analysts reconcile overlap, yet attacks are rarely prevented.
Why hasn't more threat intelligence delivered more prevention?
Feed growth outpaced operational integration, so organizations kept adding feeds instead of getting better at using them. In Malanta's survey, 71% of organizations report overlapping feeds, 100% struggle to connect signals to real threats, and 84% rely on manual or reactive processes.
What is the detection ceiling?
The detection ceiling is the point where organizations have signals but lack the context or correlation to validate them. In the survey, 50% of respondents cited detection gaps as what stands between them and preventing attacks.
What is the measurement bias?
The measurement bias is the tendency to measure how fast teams respond rather than what they prevent. 91% of surveyed organizations track MTTR and 89% track MTTD, yet only 12% track prevention-oriented metrics and 0% measure pre-attack disruption.
What is MTTP?
MTTP means Mean Time to Preempt. It measures the interval between observing adversary preparation and taking defensive action against it.
How does Malanta move organizations beyond the Feed Economy?
Malanta is the Pre-Attack Prevention Platform. It detects, validates, and dismantles adversary infrastructure during the setup phase, enriching SOC, TIP, SIEM, and SOAR systems in real time. Teams measure avoided risk through MTTP, Mean Time to Preempt, and campaign-level disruption metrics.
Download the full The Feed Economy - Malanta Survey Report (PDF)
