Recorded Future is a threat intelligence company. It collects and analyses data about attackers, malware, exposed credentials and risky suppliers, then delivers that intelligence into the security tools that organisations already run, so security, fraud and risk teams can act before an attack lands.
The problem it targets is visibility: most of what signals an attack, from a leaked password to a supplier breach, happens outside an organisation’s own network, and is useful only if it reaches the teams and tools that can respond.
At A Glance
| Vendor | Recorded Future |
|---|---|
| Category | Threat intelligence |
| Identities covered | Employee and customer credentials exposed in infostealer logs, combo lists and database dumps |
| Agentic AI | Autonomous Threat Operations and automated conversion of threat disclosures into detections |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Ownership | Acquired by Mastercard in 2024 |
| Market classification | Security Operations |
What Recorded Future Does
The core idea is a single intelligence layer feeding many teams. The Intelligence Graph® gathers material from the open web, the dark web, technical feeds and customer telemetry, and links what it finds outside an organisation with what the organisation sees internally.
That intelligence is not confined to a separate console. It goes into the SIEM, endpoint, network, identity and SOAR tools a team already uses, where it can drive blocking and detection, and researchers add analysis of cybercrime, state-sponsored activity and wider global issues.
Products
Platform Solutions
The platform is packaged as four solutions, each applying the same intelligence to a different team:
| Cyber Operations | For security operations teams, in day-to-day monitoring, triage and response. |
|---|---|
| Digital Risk Protection | Risks to an organisation that appear outside its own network. |
| Third-Party Risk | Suppliers and partners, for teams responsible for the wider supply chain. |
| Payment Fraud Intelligence | For fraud teams working on payment fraud. |
Identity Intelligence
Identity Intelligence finds exposed credentials in infostealer logs, malware combo lists and database dumps. It helps security teams catch compromised employee logins before attackers use them, and helps fraud teams stop account takeover of customer accounts. It can also watch the personal email accounts of executives and other high-risk staff, which sit outside corporate defences. When a compromise is found, responses such as password resets, MFA challenges, risk checks and access restrictions can be automated through IAM and SOAR platforms.
Autonomous Threat Operations
Autonomous Threat Operations automates continuous threat hunting, intelligence-led prevention and analysis across several sources. Its Autonomous Threat Hunting function tracks indicators of compromise, malware and threat actors across the customer’s technology stack, correlates results in the Intelligence Graph® and ranks them with Recorded Future Risk Scores. Dynamic hunts update themselves when threat actors are added to or removed from the Threat Map.
How It Works
Intelligence flows in three steps: collection and correlation in the Intelligence Graph®, scoring and research, and delivery into customer tools.
| Component | What it does |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Graph® | Indexes, organises and analyses data from over a million sources across the open web, dark web, technical feeds and customer telemetry. |
| Insikt Group® | The research team whose analysis feeds the platform through intelligence reports, threat briefings and threat actor profiles. |
| Risk Scores | Recorded Future Risk Scores rank results so teams can work on the most important findings first. |
| Native integrations | More than 100 integrations carry intelligence to control points across the security stack, where it drives blocking, detection and prevention. |
Identities And Systems Covered
| Employee credentials | Corporate logins leaked by malware or in breached data sets |
|---|---|
| Customer identities | Infostealer logs as a source of new compromises, used to stop account takeover |
| Executives and high-risk staff | Personal email accounts outside corporate defences |
| Identity systems | Okta, Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Active Directory, where responses such as password resets are applied |
Agentic AI Capabilities
Beyond the hunting covered in Autonomous Threat Operations, these systems adapt as new intelligence arrives and enforce blocks, detections and preventive controls across the customer’s tools with minimal human involvement.
Agentic processing turns new threat disclosures into production-ready detection signatures, in a reported 31 minutes at best. Instead of waiting for an analyst to read an advisory and write a rule, the platform drafts the detection itself and hands it to the customer’s controls, which shortens the gap between a public disclosure and protection in production.
Integrations
| Area | Integrations |
|---|---|
| SIEM and XDR | Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Splunk, Google SecOps, CrowdStrike XDR and NGSIEM |
| Endpoint | SentinelOne |
| Network security | Zscaler, Palo Alto NGFW |
| SOAR | Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, Swimlane, Tines |
| Vulnerability management | Tenable Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR |
Company Background
| Founded | 2009, by Christopher Ahlberg and Staffan Truvé |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Offices | Arlington, Virginia and Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Ownership | Acquired by Mastercard in September 2024 for a reported $2.65 billion |
| Research | Insikt Group®, whose analysts come from government, law enforcement, military and intelligence backgrounds |
Note: This overview is compiled from Recorded Future’s publicly available information as of 4 November 2026. It is provided for information only. NHI Mgmt Group does not endorse any vendor, and nothing on this page represents the opinions of NHI Mgmt Group.