During a quarterly budget review, the SOC manager compares several open-source threat-intelligence feeds with a commercial feed offered by a security-research vendor. Which technical advantage most often justifies paying for a commercial feed instead of relying solely on free community feeds?
Guaranteed elimination of social-engineering attacks through user-awareness analytics.
Integrated automated patch management across all operating systems.
Unlimited retention of enterprise log data in a cloud SIEM service.
More frequently updated, curated, and context-rich indicators that reduce false positives and speed response.
Commercial threat-intelligence feeds are maintained by dedicated research teams that validate, enrich, and continuously update proprietary indicators of compromise. This results in context-rich, high-fidelity intelligence that reduces false positives and speeds detection and response. The other options describe capabilities-automated patching, guaranteed prevention of social-engineering attacks, or limitless log retention-that are not delivered by a threat-intelligence feed.
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