SANS Report Sponsored by DomainTools Reveals Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Gaining Momentum as Organizations Battle to Keep Up with Hackers. 68 percent of organizations currently creating or consuming CTI data and 22 percent having plans to do so in the future. Some of the most popular security operations tasks that CTI programs support include detecting threats (79%), incident response (71%), blocking threats (70%) and threat hunting (62%) The prevalence of dedicated threat intelligence platforms is also on the rise, up from 41 percent in 2017 to 57 percent in 2018.”]