Why narrative data is a security problem

Threat intelligence often arrives as stories: forum posts, news items, leaked claims, and rumor. Those narratives are useful, but they are not already data. They mix entities, time, confidence, and motive without a schema.

If a team cannot show which sentence produced an alert, the alert is hard to defend in a meeting. Narrative data becomes a security problem when it is summarized without lineage—when a model’s fluency is mistaken for evidence.

The practical response is boring on purpose: normalize the text, map it to organizations and categories, keep the source next to the score, and say what the system cannot know. That is how unstructured cyber talk becomes a decision artifact instead of a vibe.