Reflecting on 2025: The Rise of Unified Threat Intelligence and Agentic AI
2025: A Defining Year for Cyber Threat Intelligence
2025 was a significant year for the security industry; we crossed a major Rubicon from traditional cyber threat intelligence to what we’ve now come to expect— unified cyber threat intelligence.
And we’re proud to say that Cyware was leading the charge. What good is threat intelligence if you still have to work with it, massage it, clean it up, and expend cycles before you can use it? In the age of AI, that wasted time is as needless as it is frustrating.
Here’s how Cyware helped turn the threat intelligence status quo around in 2025, how we’re using AI in practical, non-hype ways, and how Cyware’s achievements position our customers to come out ahead of the competition in 2026.
The Inflection Point: When Threat Intelligence Faced an Identity Crisis
When we talk to CISOs, we find that many security leaders struggle to fully realize the value of threat intelligence (TI). And it’s no wonder. It’s essentially just “threat data” that you still have to assemble, much like a Lego set with tedious instructions. SOCs now need those Legos pre-assembled and ready to go, not sold separately as part of a disjointed package. And they need them ready in record time.
Threat intelligence today operates much like involuntary reflexes. It is AI-powered, rapid, and always engaged, detecting, correlating, and prioritizing threats in real time without relying on constant analyst intervention. In contrast, traditional threat intelligence resembles voluntary body movements, requiring deliberate focus, sustained effort, and conscious decision-making to collect data, interpret signals, and coordinate responses. The result is a sharp divide between an intelligence process that acts instantly to protect the organization and one that depends heavily on human attention, time, and cognitive bandwidth.
This is the crisis facing the threat intelligence industry. TI has come to mean manual, inconsistent, and delayed outputs. Fragmented workflows between SecOps and threat intelligence mean increased friction, to the point where many organizations are considering deprecating their TI programs.
Cyware’s Response: Redefining Threat Intelligence Through Unification
At Cyware, we’ve addressed the challenges of disjointed, cycle-wasting threat intelligence solutions that add friction and slow down results. That’s why we’ve redefined what threat intelligence should do based on the outcomes we want: immediate response capabilities based on CTI that inform every step of the decision-making process.
How Cyware Refines What Threat Intelligence Should Do
Cyware is engineered to unify threat intelligence operations, taking threats from discovery to remediation with as few intermediary steps as possible. This shifts the whole TI paradigm from siloed threat intelligence to connected, end-to-end operational intelligence.
From the initial detection of bad behavior (IOBs as opposed to IOCs) to identifying threats that haven’t even materialized yet (through exposure management), Cyware leverages CTI to provide teams practical wins they can only achieve with real-time threat intelligence.
Fasttracking Threat Ingest-to-Action
Cyware created a similar wormhole effect for threat intelligence. Threat intelligence can now move from ingestion to action in a dramatically compressed cycle thanks to automation, integration, orchestration, and AI, breaking down obstacles so analysts can operate within a unified workflow.
As Jawahar Sivasankaran, President of Cyware, states: “When you unify threat intelligence operations into a single platform with built-in orchestration, you remove these barriers. Analysts work within a single interface. Workflows adapt in one place, and changes propagate automatically...The tool becomes an enabler rather than a burden.”
Industry Validation: UCRI Enters
Validating our approach is Gartner’s coining of the term Unified Cyber Risk Intelligence (UCRI), which Cyware was already delivering even before the concept had a name.
UCRI is the practice of combining diverse threat signals (both internal and external) into a single analytical engine to produce security results that are faster, smarter, more proactive, and more aligned with business objectives.
As Sivasankaran states, the framework “affirms what Cyware has been pioneering all along, a transition from reactive, feed-driven threat intelligence to a unified, risk-aligned discipline that informs decisions across every tier of security and business leadership.”
In 2025, threat intelligence moved from optional to essential. Faced with limited resources and a barrage of AI- and bot-driven threats, companies realized the need to be highly strategic in resource allocation. Guesswork and non-data-driven decisions were out of the question.
A Contrarian Path for AI: Practicality Over Hype
Cyware continued to stay ahead of the curve by introducing a new evolution of Cyware Quarterback AI: AI Fabric.
Gartner warns us to beware of AI-hype: “Cybersecurity leaders must ignore the AI-washing that technology providers use...and instead focus on the use cases that AI techniques can enable.” AI Fabric is not a repackaged traditional capability, but rather a genuine agentic and generative AI underpinning that distinguishes Cyware Quarterback AI as a unified threat intelligence platform, “built with AI as a foundational element and not as an afterthought.”
It solves three enterprise pain points:
The Data Problem: AI-powered automation will ensure that structured and unstructured data inputs will be normalized and formatted for immediate use.
The Automation Problem: AI translates natural language requests into complex coding languages to bridge the skills gap and save time.
The Context Problem: AI does the hard work of connecting alerts to the broader threat landscape, pulling together malware, IOCs, external threat data and additional context to give analysts the full attack story off-the-bat.
AI is no longer optional in cyber defense. Moving into the new year, Cyware will continue its pragmatic, transparent approach to AI by applying optimal methods of AI that improve analyst workflows.
What We Are Proud Of in 2025
We’ve been able to move the security needle forward in 2025 and are grateful for the chance.
A Year of Industry Leadership
In that spirit, we feel the year end is an appropriate time to celebrate wins and establish next year’s expectations. This year, we have a lot to be proud of, such as:
Cyware’s demonstrated industry leadership in unified threat intelligence.
Leading the emergence of UCRI before Gartner coined the term.
Our ongoing creation of a practical and customer-centric AI Fabric that incorporates gen AI and agentic AI at the heart of our intelligence to action workflows.
These achievements all point to us being able to provide a true security wormhole to overwhelmed practitioners, strategically orchestrating threat intelligence and AI to accelerate security outcomes faster than disjointed, manual processes ever could.
Company Highlights in 2025
Lastly, we’d like to shine a light on the key innovations, partnerships, and milestones achieved in 2025 that position us to better serve the industry in the coming twelve months. They are:
Cyware Intelligence Suite: Our fully-preconfigured threat intel program in-a-box lets analysts bypass months of tedious setup to start detecting threats within days—and responding to them with built-in automation and AI.
Cyware MCP Server: In August, we launched the Cyware Model Context Protocol (Cyware MCP) Server as a part of Cyware Quarterback AI. An open-source, AI-native solution, it allows analysts to make complex queries across all Cyware products using natural language, or conversational AI.
Cyware & Microsoft Partnership: Now, threat intel discovered and refined in Microsoft Sentinel can be shared across the broader security ecosystem via Cyware. Bi-directional CTI sharing using the TAXII protocol lets teams build circular intelligence workloads that strengthen collective defense and externally disseminate information in real-time.
Helping the UK Public Sector: This year, a major UK government agency needed help transporting CTI to its industry dependents in real-time. A “Defend as One” critical hub, this organization turned to Cyware: “What used to take days now takes minutes.”
Empowering the US Public Sector: A large US state agency responsible for processing and enriching over a million observables a week turned to Cyware for help turning actionable threat intelligence around on tight deadlines: “We accomplished more in one hour than we did with our previous TIP provider in one year.”
Welcome AI Fabric: We introduced agentic AI workflows into Cyware Quarterback AI to create a unifying AI Fabric. This innovation represents “a strategic shift in how AI empowers security operations, with AI capabilities deeply embedded across our platform.”
Looking Ahead: Entering a Non-Reversible Future for Cyber Intelligence and AI
The shift towards unified threat intelligence and agentic AI will define cybersecurity for the next decade. That’s why it's essential to have a capable industry leader at the helm.
At Cyware, we are practitioners first. We don’t like being misled by industry hype and empty promises, and we don’t plan on contributing to them.
Our AI-driven, context-aware platform is transparent about its goals, underpinning all security and business decisions with threat intelligence, and open about how it utilizes artificial intelligence to accomplish them in record time.
A Ten-Year Trend
Instead of an optional add-on, threat intelligence will be expected to drive outcomes. Unified workflows will become standard, and practical AI will replace conceptual AI as organizations scrutinize AI claims and the vendors that make them.
Real results will replace AI hype, and the trend starts now. As teams move past their AI infatuation, next year’s security decisions will be made with an eye toward practical AI outcomes and how well they integrate CTI.
Cyware’s 2026 Commitments
Looking forward, Cyware feels a responsibility to continue to lead the pack in pragmatic AI innovation and threat intelligence integration. We feel the need to show the industry that what they thought took months can be compressed through a security wormhole to take a fraction of the time.
To that end, we commit to:
Continued investment in advanced agentic AI and expanding the AI fabric
Ongoing industry leadership in unified intelligence, from ingestion to results
Bringing clarity and substance to an industry filled with noise
As we gear up for 2026, one thing is sure: this year’s wins are only a beginning for where we, and the industry, need to go next year. At Cyware, we plan to get there.
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