Global Aerospace and Defense Company — Consolidating Threat Intelligence and Automating Processes

A Global Fortune 400 aerospace and defense organization needed to bring order to a complex, multi-unit threat intelligence operation and prove the value of that work to enterprise leadership. Dataminr for Cyber Defense gave them the infrastructure to automate at scale and demonstrate ROI with precision.

The Challenge

With multiple separate business units, each carrying its own threat intelligence standard operating procedures, unique tagging conventions, ingest requirements, and remediation workflows, the security organization was fighting a losing battle against manual process debt. Open-source platforms and Excel spreadsheets served as the backbone for consolidating and organizing threat intelligence — tools that could not keep pace with the volume or complexity of the work.

Threat characterization consumed the bulk of the Intel team’s daily capacity, leaving little room for higher-order analysis. Scarce resources were being absorbed by repetitive tasks, and there was no consistent way to measure, let alone communicate, the value of security operations to the business.

The Solution

Dataminr facilitated structured working sessions with the organization’s business units — 30 or more attendees per session — to map existing manual processes and translate them into automated workflows within the Dataminr Agentic Threat Intelligence Platform.

These client-tailored sessions surfaced inefficiencies across teams and produced workflows designed around how each unit actually operated. Each automated workflow was instrumented to capture metrics on completions, time saved, and cost saved, giving the security organization a quantifiable record of operational value for the first time.

The Outcome

The impact was concrete and immediate. One automated workflow alone “saved us over $1,500/day,” according to the company’s Director of Information Sharing and Analysis Center. That result drove adoption of automated workflows across all supported business units, directly enabling more than 60 analysts to work more efficiently. For the first time, security teams had the evidence needed to show enterprise stakeholders a clear return on investment for security operations.