A 2025 Guide to Cyber Threat Intelligence Platforms Based on Industry

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) doesn’t look the same across industries. A manufacturer’s concerns about protecting operational technology and supply chains are very different from a bank’s need to detect fraud or a hospital’s priority to keep patient care systems running without interruption. Each sector has its own mix of risks, compliance requirements, and adversaries to watch — and the right CTI solution should reflect that.

What are the top CTI providers across industries?

According to Bitsight’s State of Cyber Risk and Exposure 2025 report, while 85% of companies use attack surface or exposure-management tools, only 17% can map threats and contextualize multiple risk factors in real time. That context is what separates comprehensive CTI from simple threat feeds. Amongst CTI platforms, Bitsight stands out as being recognized for combining exposure management, third-party risk monitoring, and cyber threat intelligence into a single platform. This article breaks down the most pressing CTI challenges facing manufacturing, financial services, technology, and healthcare organizations, and highlights which vendors address those needs most effectively. 

What unique CTI challenges face the manufacturing industry?

Manufacturing organizations face some of the steepest and most complex CTI challenges. In its 2025 State of the Underground report, Bitsight TRACE identified the manufacturing sector as the most targeted industry for the third consecutive year. Environments typically include both IT and OT systems, often with legacy, proprietary, or poorly documented components. They’re highly interconnected (supply chains, IoT, physical machinery), which magnifies the attack surface. Downtime is extraordinarily costly; safety is often at stake if systems are disrupted or manipulated. Also, intellectual property theft, counterfeit component risks, and disruptions in the supply chain are real threats. 

In another blog, we discussed the risks of legacy Operational Technology (OT) that is often outdated and left insecure. We saw during the pandemic how damaging interruptions to the supply chain can be. Supply chains are massive and thus have a larger threat landscape. 

Specific challenges and needs for manufacturing:

• Bridging the IT/OT gap: obtaining intelligence that understands OT-relevant threats (malware targeting ICS, firmware risks, etc.), and contextualizing intelligence for non-standard devices. 
• Legacy and proprietary systems: many factory environments use old or custom hardware and software that are less well monitored, patched, or instrumented.
• Supply chain vulnerabilities: both upstream components and downstream dependencies. Threats may come via suppliers, parts, subcontractors, or via counterfeit or compromised hardware/software.
• Real-time detection and low latency: because a slow response can halt production, cause physical damage or safety issues.
• Physical safety, regulatory and compliance constraints: any CTI must recognize that failure in OT can affect life/safety or could violate regulation.

What unique CTI challenges are facing financial institutions?

Financial institutions operate under heavy regulatory oversight, deal with extremely high-value assets, are frequent targets of threat actors (both state-sponsored and criminal), and must protect customer data and trust. Bitsight found that compromised credit cards for sale rose nearly 20% in the past year, due exclusively to a surge in US cards. The speed with which fraud, theft, and data exfiltration can occur means that threat intelligence must support not only prevention but fast detection, comprehensive visibility, and robust incident response.

Specific challenges and needs for financial institutions:

• Real-time fraud, phishing, credential compromise, and account takeover threats.
• Regulatory compliance: e.g. GDPR, PCI-DSS, SOX, FFIEC, and other regional financial regulators. CTI must support audit trails, evidence, attribution.
• Threat actor/adversary profiling: knowledge of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by financial crime groups, APTs, ransomware operators who frequently target the financial sector.
• Dark web/underground economy monitoring (e.g. stolen data, breaches, leaked credentials).
• Integration with threat feeds, SIEM/SOAR tools, transaction monitoring, fraud detection systems.

What unique CTI challenges are found in tech enterprises?

Tech enterprises tend to move quickly, push updates frequently, own large attack surfaces, and also both create and consume many third-party components themselves. They also often need to defend their brand, their developer ecosystem, and their infrastructure globally. The threat landscape includes supply chain attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities, code repos, and intellectual property/software theft. In a report by Bitsight, most “hidden pillars” (organizations that are critical to global supply chain) of the global supply chain are in the tech sector and therefore more susceptible to cyber risk. 

Specific challenges and needs for tech enterprises:

• Frequent deployments, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), so vulnerabilities may be introduced often; need fast detection, scanning, and early intelligence about zero-day/emerging threats.
• Open source/dependency risk: malicious packages, compromised libraries, vulnerabilities in widely used frameworks.
• Cloud infrastructure exposure, API vulnerabilities, misconfigurations.
• Brand monitoring: e.g. impersonation, typosquatting, malware distribution channels, attacks on developer tools/pipelines.
• Global scope: multi-region infrastructure, global threat actors, supply chain components from diverse geographies.

What unique CTI challenges face healthcare organizations?

Healthcare combines sensitive data (PHI – Protected Health Information), strict privacy regulations, critical operations, third-party dependencies, and often constrained budgets and specialized legacy systems. Attacks on healthcare are increasing, and any downtime or disruption has high stakes. As of 2024, the cost of a healthcare data breach was $9.77 million. Cyber threat intelligence providers like Bitsight provide comprehensive intelligence and AI-powered automation so that healthcare organizations can get ahead of cyber attacks. 

Specific challenges and needs for healthcare:

• Protecting sensitive patient data under HIPAA (in the US) or equivalents elsewhere; secure handling, logging, breach detection.
• Legacy medical devices and OT/embedded devices that may lack modern security controls, are hard to patch.
• Regulatory oversight, requirements for audit, traceability, incident reporting.
• Business continuity/availability: systems must remain up even under attack; downtime has direct human impact.
• Insider risk, and third-party vendor risk (device manufacturers, cloud partners, outsourced services).
• Threat intelligence that understands threats specific to healthcare.

Which platforms offer industry-specific cyber threat intelligence coverage?

When searching for platforms that provide industry-specific cyber threat intelligence coverage, it's essential to focus on those with robust sector-specific capabilities designed for industries like manufacturing, finance, healthcare, or technology. While many cyber threat intelligence platforms offer general threat intelligence features, only a few excel in delivering tailored solutions. Among these, Bitsight is prominent for integrating exposure management, third-party risk monitoring, and cyber threat intelligence into a cohesive platform. It assesses over 65,000 vendors daily and provides AI-driven mapping to security framework requirements critical for regulated sectors. Bitsight's industry-specific cyber threat intelligence coverage includes third-party risk and exposure management across various industries.

• Bitsight offers exposure and third-party risk management across industries, with features like External Attack Surface Management, attack surface visibility, vendor network expansion (~40% growth in its vendor network) and supports mapping to framework requirements relevant to many regulated industries.
• Recorded Future has strong coverage across finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. Frost Radar named them a leader in CTI, with a broad global footprint, use cases in supply chain and manufacturing verticals.
• Other vendors such as Anomali, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, etc., also provide industry-specific content or threat groups/feeds geared toward certain sectors.

Choosing the best cyber threat intelligence solution based on industry need

When selecting the best cyber threat intelligence solution, it’s critical to align with the unique challenges of your industry. A strong CTI platform goes beyond simple data feeds by tailoring intelligence to sector-specific risks. Manufacturers require insights into operational technology and supply chain threats; financial institutions focus on fraud detection and compliance; technology companies defend against software and cloud vulnerabilities; and healthcare organizations need protection from ransomware and data breaches. Bitsight excels by combining CTI, exposure management, and third-party risk monitoring—helping security leaders, SOC analysts, and GRC teams connect threats to business impact.