Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud vs. VirusTotal

Recorded Future is mainly beneficial to the SOC. As part of the Monitoring team, Recorded Future makes the investigation of the alarms a lot easier for me. It can show the reputation of the IP/domain or even hashes which helps me redirect my focus to potentially malicious network activities.

Incentivized

VirusTotal is good for ad-hoc analysis of suspicious files, but it's not a replacement for an anti-virus / anti-malware or EDR solution. It's a good way to confirm if suspicious activity is actually malicious or benign.

Incentivized

• Searching across multiple sources at the same time
• Indexing information in real time
• Dashboards, statistics and heatmaps about a certain topic

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• File Analysis
• URL Analysis
• User Interface
• Community Participation

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• For the Browser extension, since the main purpose is to present information with regards to the IP, I think it's best to give us an idea of where the IP originated/some additional information about the organization it belongs to.

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• Integration with common AV clients for a second opinion would be good

Incentivized

I've had an issue with their browser-plugin which didn't want to authenticate correctly. RF's support could arrange for a session with me and identify and solve the issue. I was very pleased how serious they took my problems and also how knowledgeable they are.

If I have more general questions they quickly reply and most likely also have a solution at hand.

Incentivized

It is the most complete solution of these three, as the others are focused in specific areas and having really detailed analysis about threat actors, APT groups, etc. Recorded Future is not having this level of knowledge in really specific areas but doing a really good work covering thousands of sources and the most relevant forums.

Incentivized

Honestly, we have always used VirusTotal, its a leader in the industry and meets our needs perfectly so we have never had the need to look elsewhere

Incentivized

• We've been able to identify leaked credentials and close those accounts off.
• We've also been able to identify malware being distributed or spam being sent out by customers using our infrastructure. Again we could shut off those accounts.
• Their domain-monitoring allows us to identify typo-squats and issue domain-takedowns for those (or at least add them to our monitoring / detection)

Incentivized

• Teaching users to use VirusTotal allows for some self service and quicker turnaround for users with questions about whether links or files are "safe".
• The API integration with our anti-phishing system provides an extra degree of confidence in results vs. a single detection engine technology.

Incentivized