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Pros
"This product has helped to increase staff productivity.""It's quite integratable so you can actually integrate and get IP malware and URL information. It also gives you some form of intelligence into what you're trying to investigate or what you're trying to understand.""The most valuable feature is you have the expertise of human experience directly involved. There is a team of experts."

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"The advantage of the solution is being able to go look up threat actors and get a lot of detailed information about different attacks and different tactics and general information about threats.""It is so valuable to have someone performing these functions outside of our business hours when we don't have staff in the building. We've seen a lot of solid metrics on the amount of malware that it's detecting and resolving. We're pleased with it so far.""The feature I have found most valuable is directory monitoring. We experienced an instance of threat actors trying to ensure a complex and massive attack against our customer's infrastructure on the forum. That is, they were animating people on a formum. The solution alerted us to this two days ahead of the attack, which gave us plenty of time to prepare for it."

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Cons
"I would like to see better integration with other systems, solutions, and vendors.""You have to look for the new information from X-Force. X-Force will provide it but you have to look for it. We need clearer visibility.""We would like to have more AI capabilities to detect threats and improve its productivity from a cybersecurity standpoint."

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"I think that the data query that is used for data cloud language should be improved. It's really hard to query actual data from the platform.""They could have better support. Now that they've merged, they are moving towards a portal system, which isn't very helpful.""Mandiant's on-prem client is too processor-intensive, so it's putting a strain on the local device's CPU. When a scan is running on the device, the other processing tasks slow to a crawl. We're still trying to figure out the correct settings for the client."

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  • "Cost is clearly a consideration, but the important thing is what we do with the data and how we protect it."
  • "One of the fastest ways to cut costs is reducing staff, and this product can reduce staff by 70 percent."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is you have the expertise of human experience directly involved. There is a team of experts.
    Top Answer:I would like to see better integration with other systems, solutions, and vendors.
    Top Answer:Our primary use case is for threat intelligence. We are feeding intelligent information from cybersecurity all over the world and letting them know how to actively protect their system.
    Top Answer:The feature I have found most valuable is directory monitoring. We experienced an instance of threat actors trying to ensure a complex and massive attack against our customer's infrastructure on the… more »
    Top Answer:I think that the data query that is used for data cloud language should be improved. It's really hard to query actual data from the platform. The free tech search is also super slow and sometimes you… more »
    Top Answer:Our primary use case was monitoring the threat actors that our clients were concerned about. We also used Mandiant Advantage to map the infrastructure that the threat experts were using and monitor… more »
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    Also Known As
    X-Force Exchange, X-Force
    Mandiant Threat Intelligence
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    Overview
    IBM X-Force Exchange is a cloud-based threat intelligence sharing platform enabling users to rapidly research the latest security threats, aggregate actionable intelligence and collaborate with peers. IBM X-Force Exchange is supported by human- and machine-generated intelligence leveraging the scale of IBM X-Force.

    Mandiant Advantage is a multi-vendor XDR platform that provides security teams of all sizes with frontline intelligence. Mandiant Advantage aims to speed up operational as well as strategic security and risk decision making. Mandiant Advantage provides security teams with an early knowledge advantage through the Mandiant Intel Grid, which provides platform modules with current and relevant threat data and analysis capabilities. Organizations are better protected from cyber attacks and more confident in their readiness when they have access to continuous security validation, detection, and response.

    Mandiant Advantage Features

    Mandiant Advantage has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Threat intelligence: Front-line intelligence that enables a defender to be aware of the strategies and tactics that opponents are employing at this moment. Organizations will be able to contextualize, prioritize, and implement the most pertinent new intelligence by fusing ASM and threat intelligence.
    • Security validation: This allows security teams to optimize, rationalize, and prioritize their security activities from a budget and manpower viewpoint. It measures the effectiveness of security controls applied within an organization. Controls can be evaluated against the most recent TTPs actively used by threat actors by incorporating information into the security validation procedure. Organizations can determine whether their security policies are successfully thwarting or detecting attacks against their external attack surface by integrating ASM and security validation.
    • Automated Defense: In order to fuel SOC event/alert correlation and triage, Automated Defense combines knowledge and intelligence with machine learning. This is similar to integrating a machine-based Mandiant analyst into your security program. By merging ASM and Automated Defense, more context is given to Automated Defense, enhancing the relevance and usefulness of alarms.
    • Attack surface management: ASM offers a continuous, scalable method for locating hundreds of different asset and exposure types within on-premises, cloud, and SaaS application environments. In addition to assets being found, technologies in use are also identified, and vulnerabilities are confirmed rather than just speculated. Cyber defenders are able to effectively and efficiently limit their external exposures by integrating the full Mandiant Advantage suite into ASM, which prioritizes and validates the information regarding the attack surface.

    Mandiant Advantage Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Mandiant Advantage. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Boost your current security investments: No matter what security policies you have implemented, you may improve your security capabilities by automating Mandiant's expertise as a virtual extension of your team.
    • Improve your visibility and priority: View the threats Mandiant is continuously monitoring across your attack surface and internal controls in order to prioritize and drive focus.
    • Flexible deployment: Depending on your needs, Mandiant Advantage can be supplied as technology, along with support, or as a fully managed contract.
    • Scale efficiently: Without the need for time-consuming and expensive human labor, a SaaS-based strategy deploys in hours, scales with your environment, and provides constant expert analysis.
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    Stater Bros. Markets, Rush Copley, Blackboat, CapWealth
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Healthcare Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    IBM X-Force Exchange is ranked 7th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 3 reviews while Mandiant Advantage is ranked 20th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 3 reviews. IBM X-Force Exchange is rated 8.0, while Mandiant Advantage is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM X-Force Exchange writes "Speed threat assessment ,security investigations leveraging on real time actionable threat intel integrated to your Security Intelligence Platform". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mandiant Advantage writes "It gives us peace of mind that issues can be addressed when our core IT team isn't working". IBM X-Force Exchange is most compared with VirusTotal, IBM Security QRadar, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), Recorded Future and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Mandiant Advantage is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex Xpanse, Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Cymulate and Recorded Future.

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