A security operations lead is asked to justify the ROI of their AI-powered threat intelligence enrichment system to the CFO. Beyond cost savings, what is the most compelling security metric to present?

• A.Number of threat intelligence reports read per analyst per week
• B.Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) reduction - showing that AI-enriched alerts reach actionable verdicts faster, correlated with the expected reduction in breach impact cost using industry data (IBM Cost of a Data Breach average cost per day of extended dwell time)
• C.Volume of IoCs automatically enriched per day
• D.Reduction in the number of security tools in the stack since AI consolidates functionality