Defense & OSINT analytics · Recorded Future, Inc. (a Mastercard company)

Recorded Future

Threat-intelligence platform indexing open web, dark web and technical feeds to prioritize security and geopolitical risks.

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Recorded Future collects and indexes data from the open internet, dark web forums, technical threat feeds (malware indicators, vulnerability data) and customer telemetry into what it calls an Intelligence Graph, then applies analysis to help security and intelligence teams prioritize which threats or actors matter for their organization instead of monitoring raw feeds manually. It is used both for cybersecurity operations, such as feeding indicators into a security operations center, and for broader geopolitical and OSINT research on threat actors, nation-state activity and brand or executive risk. Customers span government and defense agencies, security teams at enterprises and financial institutions. The company was acquired by Mastercard in December 2024 and continues to operate under the Recorded Future brand as a subsidiary. The platform is cloud-hosted and integrates into existing security tooling rather than replacing it.

At a glance

Vendor Recorded Future, Inc. (a Mastercard company)
Pricing model Quote only
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud
Open source No
Best for Security operations and intelligence teams needing prioritized, sourced threat intelligence rather than raw feeds.

Pricing

Sold as enterprise/government subscriptions; pricing is not published, though a free maturity-assessment tool is offered.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features

  • Intelligence Graph indexing open web, dark web and technical feeds
  • Threat-actor and geopolitical risk research
  • Vulnerability and malware indicator intelligence
  • Brand, executive and third-party risk monitoring
  • Integration with existing security operations tooling
  • Analyst-facing search and alerting
  • Managed intelligence and consulting services

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Head to head

Alternatives

Babel Street Multilingual OSINT and identity-resolution platform used by defense, intelligence and law-enforcement analysts. Primer NLP platform that extracts entities, claims and summaries from large volumes of text for defense and intelligence analysts. Palantir Foundry Data-integration and operations platform that links disparate sources into a shared semantic model for decisions and apps.

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Terms to know

Anomaly detection Identifying data points or patterns that deviate significantly from expected or normal behavior. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) Intelligence produced from publicly available information — social media, news, public records — rather than classified sources. Security operations center (SOC) The team responsible for continuously monitoring an organization's systems, triaging alerts, and coordinating incident response. Threat intelligence Analyzed information about attacker groups, tools, and techniques used to anticipate and defend against threats, not just react to them.

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