How to Choose a CTI Solution That Delivers Real Value

Selecting a Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) solution is a strategic decision for CISOs, security leaders, and operational teams that need to turn threat data into timely, actionable insights. This guide explains when to invest in CTI and the key factors to consider to ensure meaningful outcomes.

When to Invest in a CTI Solution

Needs vary across roles. The document identifies three main profiles that benefit directly from a robust CTI platform.

Executives and CISOs

• Growing threat landscape: Attacks on your industry have increased, making it essential to anticipate adversary moves.
• Expanded visibility: It’s important to see beyond your own perimeter, including third parties and critical regions.
• Reliable reporting: Boards expect clear, contextualized information tied to business impact.

CTI and SOC Teams

• Too many generic alerts: High alert volume drains time and attention from real investigations.
• Limited automation: Repetitive tasks leave less space for deeper analysis.
• Prioritize real risks: Scaling operations requires distinguishing relevant threats from noise.
  
  

MSSPs

• Client base growth: Maintain quality and context as you scale delivery.
• Operational efficiency: Reusable templates and multi-tenant management improve speed.
• Audience-specific reporting: Clients expect information that works for analysts and executives alike.

What to Look for in a CTI Solution

The PDF outlines five essential pillars to evaluate before choosing a platform.

1. Curation and relevance

Threat intelligence should reflect your organization’s environment, not generic market data.

• Filters based on your attack surface, industry, and geography
• Ready-made templates for specific threats
• Reduced noise while maintaining critical coverage
  
  

Axur provides alerts filtered to match your risk map with speed and precision.

2. Speed and frequency

Threats evolve fast, and CTI must keep up.

• Continuous updates and near real-time alerts
• Quick delivery without sacrificing quality
• Compatibility with existing workflows
  
  

Axur generates reports quickly and tracks threats continuously.

3. Integration and automation

CTI should fit naturally into your security ecosystem.

• Open APIs and data compatible with your stack
• Integrations with SIEM, SOAR, and EDR solutions
• Support for orchestrated and automated response playbooks

Axur integrates seamlessly into response flows without extra effort or technical bottlenecks.

4. Coverage and sources

Effective intelligence relies on diverse, reliable data.

• Access to reports, news, investigations, and breach data
• AI enrichment to add context
• Correlation across IOCs, CVEs, TTPs, industries, and threat actors

Axur processes over a thousand trusted sources with specialized AI models, delivering only what matters for your attack surface and key topics.

5. Scalability and value delivery

CTI must grow with your operation and demonstrate impact clearly.

• Multi-tenant architecture and support for multiple environments
• Reusable, customizable templates per industry, client, or region
• Reporting tailored for both technical and executive audiences

With Axur, you can standardize quality, expand delivery, and clearly prove value.

Axur’s Approach

AI-curated CTI, tailored to your reality and delivered in minutes,  ready to integrate and act.

The platform turns threat intelligence into actionable decisions aligned with your security team’s needs.

It also includes visual tools such as the Threat Landscape, which highlights recent trends and impacted regions over a given timeframe, helping teams understand the geographic distribution of threats.

Conclusion

Adopting a CTI solution means turning threat intelligence into a strategic advantage. Evaluating factors like curation, speed, integration, coverage, and scalability helps focus efforts where they matter most.

For organizations seeking dependable, fast, and context-aware intelligence, consider solutions that combine automation, broad coverage, and clear reporting, like the AI-curated CTI described in this guide.