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We performed a comparison between IBM X-Force Exchange and ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most valuable feature is you have the expertise of human experience directly involved. There is a team of experts.""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.""This product has helped to increase staff productivity."

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"The most valuable features are ease of use and the ability to customize it.""It's a solid platform and is stable enough. It is not complicated and is easy to use.""ThreatConnect has a highly user-friendly interface.""The product automatically generated a threat score based on the maliciousness of an IP."

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Cons
"We would like to have more AI capabilities to detect threats and improve its productivity from a cybersecurity standpoint.""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."

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"It would be good to have more feeds and more integrated sources for enrichment.""Integration is an area that could use some improvement.""They should make it a little bit easier to generate events and share them with the community""I couldn’t get any training videos online when I was working with the tool."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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  • "The price of this product is in the mid-range, not too expensive, nor inexpensive."
  • "The price could be better."
  • "The tool is expensive."
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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 product automatically generated a threat score based on the maliciousness of an IP.
    Top Answer:The building of playbooks could be more refined. The training is not openly available. I couldn’t get any training videos online when I was working with the tool. With other tools, I could easily get… more »
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    Also Known As
    X-Force Exchange, X-Force
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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.

    The ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Operations (TIOps) Platform lets organizations operationalize and evolve their cyber threat intel program, enabling cybersecurity operations teams to measurably improve their organization’s resilience to attacks. The TIOps Platform enhances collaboration across teams to drive proactive threat defense, and improve threat detection and response. The AI- and automation-powered TI Ops Platform enables analysts to perform all their work effectively and efficiently in a single, unified platform, allowing threat intel to be aggregated, analyzed, prioritized, and actioned against the most relevant threats. 

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    Oracle, IBM, General Dynamics, Scotiabank, Sony, Athena Health, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Workday, TikTok
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Healthcare Company6%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    IBM X-Force Exchange is ranked 7th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 3 reviews while ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is ranked 4th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 4 reviews. IBM X-Force Exchange is rated 8.0, while ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is rated 8.0. 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 ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) writes "The tool could be integrated into any environment, but it was expensive, and the deployment process was complex". IBM X-Force Exchange is most compared with VirusTotal, IBM Security QRadar, Recorded Future, Anomali ThreatStream and Mandiant Advantage, whereas ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is most compared with Anomali ThreatStream, Recorded Future, ThreatQ, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR and TruSTAR.

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