In war, there is a common enemy, with their own way of doing things. F3EAD is a continuous study of that common enemy and commanders continue to gather intelligence to help decide how to outmaneuver them. 

It would be quite difficult if we were to use F3EAD as a framework in the commercial space as most organizations do not have dedicated assets for targeting specific threats.

The way that I envision the F3EAD process in the commercial space is that:

1. Specialized teams: Provide targeted operational information to the Tactical Level based on prioritized requirements
2. Targeted capabilities project planning: Allows us to look at how we can approach developing the cyber intelligence capability within our organizations
3. IT operations / security integration for incident response: Allows a holistic approach to incident response

The best way to describe how the F3EAD process works for those in the special forces community is that it is the same as the Agile Manifesto for the DevOps or DevSecOps community:

• It is an organizational culture, in that each member understands their responsibility to ensure the success of the organization through establishing lines of communication between each other on their targets so that they can complete the mission
• It is an understanding that information gathering on priority targets allows an organization's stakeholders to take decisive actions to achieve their missions
•  It is knowing once decisive actions have been taken, that the resulting information will help drive actions on the next objective

All of the processes that we've learned up to this point are theoretical ways we can look at cyber intelligence as an enabler between operations and security. If we can see the importance of establishing the priorities of effort, communicating them across all parties, and starting to collect actionable information from the operational level through to the Tactical Level, then we can begin to grow as a team to be collaborative and act as one.