The Russian anti-malware vendor compiled its latest report, Managing Your IT Security Team, from interviews with over 5200 IT business decision-makers across 31 countries in June 2020. It revealed that two-thirds (66%) of threat intelligence analysts participate in a professional community, in order to gain access to the most up-to-date and actionable information to help them protect their organization. This includes subscriptions to vulnerability databases (61%), taking part in professional forums and blogs (45%) and receiving threat intelligence from paid (42%) and free (33%) feeds. However, employers are usually against these same analysts sharing their own intelligence with external communities. Over half (52%) claimed they do not allow such activity.