Recorded Future Reviews

Recorded Future integrates well with other security solutions in a security stack. It is one of the best things you can spend your money on to obtain better results that are more tailored to your organization.

From the feedback I've received from my clients, the most valuable feature is the ability to personalize the solution. The ability to have a customized dashboard makes it easy for leadership and management to obtain details. Intelligence analysts or security engineers care about the actions and results, whereas the leadership care about graphs and reports. Recorded Future helps my clients create reports and also determine how the intelligence that is generated is consumed. They can easily show the benefits to the leadership without them having to invest 10 hours a week into transferring numbers into a graph or into creating reports.

At present, my clients need to be trained by me or another organization on how to use Recorded Future and how to get the best out of it as an analyst, engineer, and administrator. It would be better if clients could directly learn these things without having to go through me or other organizations.

I've been using Recorded Future for three years. I have worked with it deployed both on-premises and on AWS cloud.

The uptime of the solution is great. I've encountered only a few situations in the past where I needed to use Recorded Future and it wasn't immediately accessible. However, I was able to access it after about three hours.

It's definitely scalable.

My experience with technical support has been okay.

I found the initial setup to be easy. On-premises deployments take a few hours, and cloud deployments may take longer. Depending on the client and their level of expertise, the integration of the solution may taka a few months to two years. 

I usually deploy the solution myself for my clients.

The biggest disadvantage of Recorded Future is the cost here in Eastern Europe. The solution is correctly priced for big companies who have the money to invest in such solutions. Also, the solution is useless on its own, which means that you have to invest in other solutions with which Recorded Future can be integrated.

At present, Recorded Future can cost 60,000 euros per year. I am able to offer my clients a 5% to 10% discount, but in this region, the cost is still prohibitive even with the discount.

If Recorded Future were more flexible in terms of price, there would be better sales opportunities in Europe and Eastern Europe, in particular, because we have more small- and medium-sized companies here.

Recorded Future is a great tool overall for threat intelligence. I think it's one of the best to add to an organization's security stack. However, the licensing costs are extremely high for small- to medium-sized companies. As such, I would rate it at nine on a scale from one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best.

We used Recorded Future to find many things like passwords captured in the dark net and websites selling other information regarding our domains. We use the solution to search for our brand or other institutions on the darknet.

Recorded Future helps our organization to be a step ahead of future attacks.

The most valuable feature of Recorded Future is how it detects everything regarding our domain.

Recorded Future is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved.

We recently acquired Recorded Future.

Recorded Future is a stable solution, and we haven't experienced any downtime with it.

Recorded Future is a scalable solution. Around five users are using the solution in our organization. We are spread across the country and have around 30,000 endpoints for Recorded Future.

We are still learning how to use the solution. I think Recorded Future has a normal deployment or a normal learning curve.

It takes around three months to deploy the solution.

Before choosing Recorded Future, we evaluated other options like Mandiant and FortiRecon. We chose Recorded Future because it gives much better results.

Organizations must have at least two dedicated technicians working with the solution since the learning curve is a little big. To use the solution to its maximum capacity for the first year, having at least two technicians working with Recorded Future is better.

Overall, I rate Recorded Future ten out of ten.

As an analyst serving several clients, our team relies on Recorded Future to receive timely alerts related to using underground screen searches. This involves using an algorithmic code feature to gather the specific data we need, which then triggers an alert for us. When we receive the alert on the platform, we assess it to determine if it pertains to our client's needs. If it does, we report our findings to the client.

I have been working with these types of services and tools for a while. When compared to other tools, Recorded Future provides good alerts. For example, clients' credentials, documents posted from GitHub, and other testing sites.

The most valuable features of Recorded Future are the useful alerts it provides. If we are monitoring a domain, the solution will provide us with an alert in a prompt manner. It is simple for clients to receive alerts. The advanced search is useful for more accurate filter results.

The solution could improve in reducing the false positives. However, most of the other tools on the market have false positives. If they enhance their data algorithm, it could improve the accuracy of results and minimize false positives. Identifying patterns of false possibilities can aid in developing better reporting features that could potentially eliminate them in the future. This recording feature tool could benefit from adopting similar techniques utilized by other tools to enhance its functionality. By doing so, it could minimize the need for manual efforts in distinguishing true positives from false positives, ultimately reducing the workload.

In a future release, it would be beneficial if the vendor would add more features to create one full solution that can meet the needs of the whole cybersecurity incident purpose.

I have been using Recorded Future for approximately four years.

I have never experienced any downtime during our production hours. Maintenance work is typically scheduled during off-peak times, so it does not cause any disruptions. As a result, we can confidently rely on this tool for our work without any issues.

The solution provides beneficial results. 

I rate the scalability of Recorded Future a nine out of ten.

We faced some difficulties initially due to our unfamiliarity with the tool. However, after reaching out to their tech support team, we received excellent assistance from their cooperative staff. With their help, we were able to resolve our issues quickly and efficiently. However, there have been some times when the knowledge of the agent could have been better.

I rate the support of Recorded Future an eight out of ten.

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I have previously used other tools, such as legacy tools.

The price of the solution is worth it. The overall performance of the solution outweighs the cost.

I rate Recorded Future nine out of ten.

We use Recorded Future for threat intelligence.

The most valuable feature is Recorded Future's protection of exposed customer data on the hardware side.

When you add one website to Recorded Future, it should automatically call all other websites and social media platforms.

I deployed Recorded Future for a client. They've used the product for more than three years. 

Every cloud solution is stable. Recorded Future also has auto-scaling. 

Recorded Future is a scalable product. 

Setting up Recorded Future is straightforward.  It's a cloud-based service, so you only need to contact their team and ask them to create an instance. Everything is hosted on their cloud so it takes no time to deploy.

We see an ROI from using Recorded Future. It has dark web monitoring, which our previous solution lacked.

We have a yearly subscription. The license is based on the modules and features you use. For example, it's a different cost if you want to cover the dark web and deep scanning. 

I rate Recorded Future seven out of 10. I can recommend Recorded Future, depending on a company's budget and the features it needs. 

Recorded Future covers a lot of different use cases. For example, we are using it for threat intelligence research. We do use the tool to make active research on what is found around the threat. We look at patterns, for example, and see what can be elaborated on from that. 

In another use case, we use it to get all the IOCs registered and use it after that to allow other intelligence technologies to feed into that to prevent any issues for customers.

We can also use it for active monitoring in the customer interface. We can monitor the business side of a campaign. We can monitor for specific threats or market activity on the dashboard. We can develop queries to run in a continuous mode in order to get the best reviews. 

With all the related IOCs we were able to provide really deep information about the impact, about where we are with the big campaign, and also provide tools that were a priority to be a preventative block on the customer side. It was helpful in that sense.

As a threat intelligence tool, it's very helpful.

The stability is very good.

Technical support has been helpful.

It's really easy to create dashboards and modify them to fit what you need.

The product is too big. The vast majority of data you have. You can run queries and you can get more data than you probably want, and you have to take a deep dive a lot of the time.

The solution would benefit from introducing automation. When you are running a query just to get the data you're looking for, the result comes back so big, as it will be able to return a lot of results from different sources. Sometimes it could be a bit messy. Automation would help streamline and simplify.

The tool can be pricey, especially for smaller companies.

I was working with the tool in November. I've used it in the last 18 months or so.

I have a good impression of the stability of the product. Any time that we needed it, it was there. It is always up and running and we didn't have any issues with it. There are no bugs or glitches, for example, and it didn't crash or freeze.

We haven't attempted to scale or optimize the solution. I can't say how easy or difficult the process would be.

We only have one license feed and have up to ten users on it. We're already beginning to increase usage a bit.

Technical support has been pretty good so far. I haven't had any issues with them. We're quite satisfied with the level of service provided.

I didn't previously use a different solution.

By the time I joined the company, the tool was already in place. Therefore, I can't speak to the initial implementation or deployment process. I can't say if it was difficult or simple or how long it took.

As a cloud solution, it doesn't require much maintenance. Anything else, such as automation using a document, would be on our side, and we'd update it as needed.

We haven't seen an ROI. The area that it was used for, as a report, initially was assigned to be used internally only and after that, we decided to try it out as a service to our customers. However, we never sold that service, so we never got a return immediately. 

The pricing is quite high compared to other intelligence tools.

The licensing is based on the user and also the amount of usage. It's expensive in terms of what you can get. You need to be a very sizable company in order to get any real value as it's quite a sizable tool. There are other tools on the market that are less expensive - especially for smaller companies.

There aren't any additional costs above the standard licensing fee, although there are some add-ons you can get that can expand the solution's capabilities. 

At the moment the solution is hosted on a SaaS. It's hosted on their own cloud that they are managing. We only have access to a part that is completely isolated from other customers and in another area. 

As far as I know, we are using the latest version of the solution. As it's cloud-based, it's constantly updated independently.

If a company is ready to introduce the solution, my main recommendation would be to have a really, really good threat intelligence team working on-site beforehand. If you don't have a good design or a good knowledge of threat intelligence you will never get the insights you need or use the tool to its full potential.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. It's quite an expensive solution. If it was less expensive, I'd likely rate it higher.