"If we solely rely on feeds we risk delivering data to our customers that may be stale so that solution isn’t terribly attractive. "

Excellent point. Stale (and even incorrect) data doesn't do much for your customers, or for you own reputation with them. This is a problem many companies run into. You have to balance security with customer needs with business goals and something (usually security) gets pushed to the backburner to make room for everything else.