Threat intelligence is now essential for UK businesses facing increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. With 43% of UK businesses experiencing a cyber breach in the past year, security teams need intelligence that doesn’t just inform, they need insight that drives action.
UK CISOs face a perfect storm: advanced threats, regulatory pressure, and resource gaps. That’s why Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) is helping you move from reactive to proactive protection.
By unifying Mandiant’s frontline expertise, VirusTotal’s global scale, Google’s own vast telemetry, and Gemini AI, GTI transforms overwhelming threat data into actionable, context-rich intelligence. Analysts can triage faster, pivot deeper, and escalate only what truly matters.
For UK security leaders balancing GDPR, NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Bill, the message is clear: threat intelligence is evolving from raw indicators to context you can act on.
The Challenge: Drowning in Data, Starved for Insight
Recent Forrester research* reveals a critical problem:
overwhelmed by too
many threat feeds.
to process the information.
stuck in reactive mode,
responding after threats strike.
Without context, it’s impossible to know which ones matter.
GTI filters this noise, highlighting the handful that pose real risk to your business.
More intelligence sources should mean more informed teams and less risk. But without the ability to contextualise and act on this information, organisations struggle to prioritise threats and respond effectively. Raw threat feeds become background noise, leaving security teams drowning in data while genuine threats slip through. What matters is actionable, contextual intelligence that maps to your environment.
Why Google Threat Intelligence is Different
Google’s expansion into threat intelligence represents more than market opportunism; it validates how essential threat intelligence has become to modern cyber defence. The company has methodically assembled threat intelligence building blocks that compound value when combined:
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG): Deep research into APTs and state-sponsored campaigns,- Mandiant: Real-world insight from thousands of incident response cases,
- VirusTotal: The world’s largest crowdsourced malware database,
- Uppercase: Advanced data analysis for threat hunting,
- Safe Browsing + global telemetry: Data from billions of users, Chrome browsers, Gmail accounts and malicious site analysis.
Together, these assets transform GTI into more than just another feed; they create a unified, cloud-driven intelligence capability with unmatched visibility and context.
GTI’s Core Differentiators: Turning Volume into Value
1. Actionable, Contextual Insight, Not Just Indicators
Unlike traditional threat intelligence providers that focus on delivering massive volumes of indicators, GTI filters billions of daily signals into prioritised, defensible answers, backed by:
Google telemetry from billions of devices, 1.5B email accounts, Chrome browsers and Safe Browsing data.
- Mandiant’s expertise from thousands of incident investigations, adding hard-won context from real intrusions.
- VirusTotal intelligence from the world’s largest crowdsourced malware corpus.
On top of this, Gemini AI accelerates triage and investigation through conversational analysis, enabling analysts to move faster and focus on what matters most.
2. UK and EU-Centric Threat Visibility & Regulatory Alignment
GTI provides intelligence aligned to European regulatory frameworks (GDPR, NIS2, Cyber Resilience Bill), giving CISOs the context to focus on relevant threats and demonstrate compliance. TAG’s analysis of state-linked campaigns and exploit chains feeds directly into GTI, enabling UK organisations to prove due diligence and support board-level reporting.
3. Seamless Integration with Existing Security Operations
GTI enriches and prioritises alerts directly within SIEM or SOAR platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, Google SecOps, QRadar, Cortex XSOAR). Automation happens in your SIEM/SOAR using GTI intelligence (e.g., blocking domains/URLs, ticketing, playbook routing).
4. Analyst Workbench for Real Investigation
The GTI console includes a workbench for interactive graph visualisations, YARA hunting, and curated collections, enabling faster technical pivots and deeper investigations. Analysts can triage faster, pivot deeper, and escalate only what truly matters.
5. Human Expertise at Scale
Google brings TAG and Mandiant together under the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). TAG tracks advanced, often state-sponsored actors globally, while Mandiant contributes frontline incident intelligence at scale. GTI learns from human analyst actions, tailoring its output to become increasingly relevant to specific organisational needs.
Managed Threat Intelligence: Cyberseer’s MSSP Model
While GTI provides the intelligence foundation, many UK organisations need a partner to operationalise it effectively. That’s where Cyberseer comes in.
To ensure UK organisations can fully leverage GTI’s capabilities, Cyberseer integrates GTI into your security operations as part of a managed service. Our team configures GTI to align with your business risk profile, sets up automated enrichment and alerting, and provides ongoing expert analysis and reporting.
For example:
- When GTI flags a malicious domain, Cyberseer correlates it with your environment, investigates the impact, validates the exposure, and can block the domain.
- GTI’s attack surface insights are used to identify exposed assets, triggering automated playbooks for remediation.
- Our analysts leverage GTI’s AI-driven triage to focus on high-risk threats, reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and accelerating incident response.
This MSSP model provides 24/7 UK-based security operations, ensuring intelligence is not just delivered but actively applied. Customer teams receive support for threat profiling, board-ready reporting, and continuous threat exposure management – bridging the gap between intelligence and action.
This means you benefit from Google’s world-class threat intelligence, actioned and contextualised for your environment, without the overhead of managing the technology or interpreting raw data yourself.
Making GTI Deliver Value for Your Organisation
Success with GTI depends on people and process. Organisations need to align threat intelligence with business risk, establish clear workflows for acting on intelligence, and ensure teams have the support to act on insights effectively.
Cyberseer operationalise GTI so organisations gain measurable value from day one.
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Sector-specific intelligence:
Build threat profiles tailored to your industry, geography and adversaries – not generic feeds. -
Hunting & Enrichment:
Wire GTI into your SIEM/SOAR for automated enrichment and playbook execution. -
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM):
Use GTI’s attack surface and digital risk signals to uncover exposed assets, impersonation, or leaked credentials, then reduce the window of exposure with agreed actions. -
Vulnerability Prioritisation:
Patch based on what is actively exploited in the wild, not just CVSS scores. -
Board-Ready Reporting:
Translate technical threats into risk narratives, control posture, and KPIs (MTTD/MTTR, exposure trend, top actor/TTPs, playbook efficacy), aligned to UK expectations.
The focus isn’t just on delivering intelligence but ensuring it drives measurable improvements in security resilience.
Why UK CISOs Should Pay Attention Now
The convergence of Google’s capabilities creates unique opportunities for UK security leaders:
Escape the Reactive Trap:
With 72% of organisations stuck reacting to threats, GTI’s context and prioritisation help teams anticipate threats most relevant to your industry and footprint, rather than discovering them post-breach.
Solving the Skills Crisis:
The 60% of organisations lacking skilled analysts can leverage GTI’s insight and Cyberseer expertise to augment their in-house team’s capabilities immediately, without lengthy recruitment processes.
Managing Data Overload:
For the 61% of organisations overwhelmed by threat feeds, GTI consolidates and contextualises intelligence with unified verdict and scoring backed by Google, Mandiant and VirusTotal evidence, cutting noise and investigation time.
Strengthen Governance:
Map campaigns and TTPs to frameworks like NCSC 10 Steps, NIS2 and the CSR Bill to satisfy regulators and boards.
From Reactive to Proactive
For UK businesses facing sophisticated threats, resource constraints, and growing regulatory pressures, GTI represents an opportunity to transform threat intelligence from a data problem into a competitive advantage.
The real question isn’t whether you need better threat intelligence – it’s whether you can afford to remain reactive while attackers move faster, smarter, and more proactively than ever.
Ready to see how GTI delivers threat intelligence tailored to UK businesses?
Contact Cyberseer to explore how Google Threat Intelligence can transform your security operations from reactive to proactive.
