We performed a comparison between Recorded Future and USM Anywhere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Recorded Future, Microsoft, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Threat Intelligence Platforms."The tool is helpful in vulnerability assessment of zero-day vulnerabilities and phishing domains. The solution provides information on any domains of the organization that has undergone phishing or any other cyberattacks."
"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."
"It can collect data from various sources, including social media and the dark web."
"The intel that they were providing us over the emails was very good. If it found any hashtag in our organization's name on the dark web, a rogue IP, or a marketplace, it would send us an email and notify us that this is being mentioned, and if we want, they can take some action."
"The most valuable feature of Recorded Future is how it detects everything regarding our domain."
"As a threat intelligence tool, it's very helpful."
"Has the ability to conduct and build any query without limitations."
"The most valuable feature is Recorded Future's protection of exposed customer data on the hardware side."
"The AlienVault solution has enabled us to create a SOC on a budget with smaller than usual staff requirements, offering a wider range of solutions for our customers."
"This solution can identify many threats inside the organization (compromised endpoints, configuration issues), as well as "outside" threats (botnets, network scanners, web-attacks, etc)."
"Having everything in a central place has been helpful."
"Allowed us to help our customers satisfy compliance needs around logging and monitoring."
"The ease of implementation is the most valuable feature."
"The solution has all the features that we need, however they do not work correctly."
"The setup is very easy and straightforward."
"Log-monitoring and alerting enable us to know when things happen that we need to know about."
"The product gives many false positives. If someone talks about the brand or organization name in the public domain over chats or blocks, it gets highlighted. It may not necessarily be a threat but still gets highlighted which increases the false positive count."
"We can get the data of different malware active throughout the globe, but it would be good if we can do sandboxing of a file. For example, on Any Run, we can perform sandboxing of malware along with their intel about a particular file or hash. It would be great if they have a feature like that."
"Recorded Future is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."
"It sometimes detects false positives and reduces the overall accuracy of the system."
"Lacks sufficient visibility of malware and international APT attacks."
"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."
"When you add one website to Recorded Future, it should automatically call all other websites and social media platforms."
"The solution would benefit from introducing automation."
"There could be some type of integration with our existing portal. We have our own customer portals, and it would be good if there was an integration so that our portal can provide reports. There could be some type of API into the AlienVault system with the USM system so that it is easy to show the customers high-level reports of the system through our portal."
"As this software is in the cloud, you do not have control on updates and general changes which are happening."
"I've been using it just for my own personal upskilling in terms of how the product works. At the moment, it is pretty straightforward and simple, and it is working how it is supposed to. The feedback would come once it is deployed to customer sites. They'll be using it on a more frequent basis, and that's when the feedback would come in terms of the areas in which they're facing issues or are looking for simplicity."
"It would be hard for any legitimate MSSP to use it."
"The GUI needs to improve because it's not user-friendly."
"We would like more plugins. This being the main point of improvement which would benefit the users."
"There are many reports included but would be nice to have better access to the data."
"The AT&T AlienVault USM is okay, but the relational database is not very good for large amounts of data. For example, many logs cannot be processed. It has been very slow for the queries and some data which are large, it is not very good in this case."
Recorded Future is ranked 1st in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 10 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. Recorded Future is rated 8.6, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Recorded Future writes "Traceless online searches, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". Recorded Future is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, ZeroFOX, Intel 471, Digital Shadows and Anomali ThreatStream, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Sentinel.
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