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Group-IB vs Recorded Future

Group-IB is a Prediction-First cybersecurity company built on collective defense. Recorded Future is a threat intelligence company that sells real-time intelligence and autonomous defense. CISO Tribune files both under Threat intelligence, External attack surface management and Digital risk protection. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Group-IB vs Recorded Future: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
Group-IBGroup-IB is a Prediction-First cybersecurity company built on collective defense.group-ib.comRecorded FutureRecorded Future is a threat intelligence company that sells real-time intelligence and autonomous defense.recordedfuture.com
What it sells
  • Threat Intelligence[1][3][5]Group-IB Threat Intelligence Platform has a graph interface for investigating cyber threats.
  • Attack Surface Management[1][5]Group-IB delivers external attack surface management that automatically maps every asset and provides continuous attack surface monitoring and analysis.
  • Fraud Protection[1][4]Group-IB's online fraud protection platform uses global fraud intelligence, device fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to detect fraud.
  • Digital Risk Protection[1][6][11]Group-IB's digital risk protection solution continuously monitors and detects threats across the open, deep and dark web.
  • Managed XDR[7]Group-IB Managed XDR solution secures an email gateway using intelligence-driven behavioral analysis technology.
  • Business Email Protection[1][7]Group-IB offers Business Email Protection against phishing and scam attacks.
  • Intelligence Graph[4][5]Indexes and analyzes threat data from over a million sources.
  • Collective Insights[11]Integrates data from security tools such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and email security.
  • Threat Intelligence[3][6][11][12]Provides profiles of threat actors and the techniques and tools they use.
  • Vulnerability Intelligence[7]Scores vulnerabilities based on their exploitability.
  • Geopolitical Intelligence[9]Indexes global data from social media, local news, and messaging platforms.
  • Managed Services[13]Recorded Future analysts provide validated incident escalations.
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Headquarters
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Founded
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Named customers
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Recent news
  • October 29, 2026Group-IB's Digital Risk Protection solution is now available in AWS Marketplace.[11]
  • January 27, 2026Group-IB launches a Cloud Security Posture Management solution as part of its Unified Risk Platform.[10]
  • June 2, 2026Recorded Future announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited to expand intelligence-led cybersecurity services for global enterprises.[14]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[12]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
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Who it fits
Not written yetRisk and compliance teams are named as users who monitor third-party exposure before it surfaces as an incident. Fraud prevention teams are named as users who detect compromised payment infrastructure and active fraud campaigns before they reach customers. Executive and finance teams are named as users who quantify risk exposure and make decisions about security investment. Recorded Future states that its services team works with customers across various industries, sizes, and maturity levels.
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Where they overlap

  • Threat intelligence is the primary category of both Group-IB and Recorded Future; both are also filed under External attack surface management and Digital risk protection.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Group-IB is also filed under Fraud prevention. Recorded Future is also filed under Third-party risk and security ratings.
  • Group-IB lists Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Management, Fraud Protection, Digital Risk Protection, Managed XDR and 1 more. Recorded Future lists Intelligence Graph, Collective Insights, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Geopolitical Intelligence and 1 more.
  • Recorded Future is headquartered in Boston, United States.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files Group-IB under Threat intelligence, External attack surface management, Digital risk protection and Fraud prevention, with Threat intelligence as its primary category. Both companies therefore sell threat intelligence, and both appear in the digital risk protection and external attack surface management categories.

Group-IB sells a Threat Intelligence Platform with a graph interface, plus attack surface management, digital risk protection, and fraud protection that uses device fingerprinting and behavioral analysis. Group-IB also lists Managed XDR and Business Email Protection, and it launched a Cloud Security Posture Management solution on January 27, 2026. Its Digital Risk Protection solution became available in AWS Marketplace on October 29, 2026. Recorded Future sells an Intelligence Graph that indexes data from over a million sources, along with Collective Insights, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Geopolitical Intelligence and Managed Services. Group-IB lists fraud prevention among its categories, while Recorded Future describes detecting compromised cards and checks using dark web and fraud ecosystem data.

Recorded Future is headquartered in Boston, United States. Among customers, Recorded Future names INVESTBANK and NOV. On June 2, 2026, Recorded Future announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited to expand intelligence-led cybersecurity services for global enterprises.

What it sells: Group-IB

What Threat Intelligence does[1][3][5]
Group-IB's digital threat intelligence solution, powered by the Unified Risk Platform, integrates with SIEM, SOAR and TIP solutions, or via API and STIIX/TAXII data transfer. Group-IB threat intelligence lets users uncover illicit activities and monitor the dark web to determine if their organization is mentioned there. Group-IB's Threat Intelligence solution is available in AWS Marketplace.
What Attack Surface Management does[1][5]
Group-IB's platform enriches findings with threat intelligence to assess risk and prioritize issues. The Assets tab lists Internet-facing assets that are part of an organization's infrastructure, which can be confirmed or ignored. The Issues tab lists identified issues among confirmed assets, which can be marked as Under Review, Solved, Ignored or False Positive. Group-IB's attack surface platform checks confirmed assets for common vulnerabilities and assigns each one a risk score.
What Fraud Protection does[1][4]
Group-IB device fingerprinting technology is powered by the patented Global ID innovation. Group-IB device fingerprinting identifies devices, generates unique fingerprints, tracks fraudulent activities and uncovers hidden multi-accounting, anti-detection browsers and account farming. Group-IB Fraud Protection's AI uses a combination of signature analysis and User Behavior Analysis (UBA).
What Digital Risk Protection does[1][6][11]
Group-IB Digital Risk Protection solution implements a three-stage takedown process for violations such as scam and phishing. Group-IB Digital Risk Protection uses machine learning to detect scams, phishing and other violations. Group-IB analysts research scam groups, actors and popular schemes, creating new assets for monitoring and public reports.

What it sells: Recorded Future

What Intelligence Graph does[4][5]
The Intelligence Graph indexes data from over a million sources, including the open web, dark web, technical feeds, and customer telemetry. It connects data points using an ontology graph for stable information and an event graph for rapidly changing threat data. Recorded Future states that the Intelligence Graph is accessible via API and powers nine specialized products.
What Collective Insights does[11]
Collective Insights integrates data from security tools like EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and email security. Collective Insights automatically tags security events and maps them to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The Collective Insights API is free to use with a current Recorded Future subscription. Collective Insights uses read-only API access and only touches detection metadata.
What Threat Intelligence does[3][6][11][12]
Recorded Future Threat Intelligence provides detailed profiles of the threat actors currently attacking similar organizations and the techniques and tools they use. Recorded Future provides pre-built hunting packages with YARA, Snort, and Sigma rules written and tested by its Insikt Group.
What Vulnerability Intelligence does[7]
Vulnerability Intelligence uses real-time data to score vulnerabilities based on their exploitability. Vulnerability Intelligence tracks vulnerabilities specific to an organization's tech stack without any agents or sensors required. Recorded Future lets users monitor vulnerabilities by lifecycle stage, from disclosure to exploitation.
What Geopolitical Intelligence does[9]
Geopolitical Intelligence indexes global data from across social media, local news, and messaging platforms in numerous languages. Recorded Future offers Country Risk Scoring to assess the risk of conducting or continuing business in a specific country. Recorded Future assesses country risk across five functional categories.
What Managed Services does[13]
Recorded Future analysts provide validated incident escalations. Recorded Future services staff continuously monitor vulnerabilities across the weaponization lifecycle and alert on what needs to be prioritized.

Questions about Group-IB and Recorded Future

What do Group-IB and Recorded Future sell?
Group-IB sells Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Management, Fraud Protection, Digital Risk Protection, Managed XDR and 1 more. Recorded Future sells Intelligence Graph, Collective Insights, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Geopolitical Intelligence and 1 more.
Are Group-IB and Recorded Future in the same category?
Yes. Threat intelligence is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are Group-IB and Recorded Future headquartered?
Recorded Future is headquartered in Boston, United States.
Who are Group-IB and Recorded Future sold to?
Risk and compliance teams are named as users who monitor third-party exposure before it surfaces as an incident.
What have Group-IB and Recorded Future announced recently?
October 29, 2026: Group-IB's Digital Risk Protection solution is now available in AWS Marketplace. June 2, 2026: Recorded Future announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited to expand intelligence-led cybersecurity services for global enterprises.

About Group-IB

Group-IB is a Prediction-First cybersecurity company built on collective defense. Group-IB has products, intelligence and expertise that work together on a shared data lake. Group-IB offers real-time threat detection and response for endpoints, network, infrastructure and email. Group-IB offers real-time fraud prevention and client-side digital identity protection. Group-IB offers AI-powered digital risk identification and remediation for securing digital assets.[2][4]

Group-IB's Threat Intelligence solution is available in AWS Marketplace. Group-IB's digital threat intelligence solution, powered by the Unified Risk Platform, integrates with SIEM, SOAR and TIP solutions, or via API and STIIX/TAXII data transfer. Prevyn AI orchestrates 12 Specialist Agents, each expert in one domain of threat intelligence. Group-IB names three agents Compromise Detection, Malicious Infrastructure Detection and Attack Activity, built to anticipate attacks before they happen. Group-IB Threat Intelligence Platform has a graph interface for investigating cyber threats. Group-IB's graph lets users explore the relationship between threat actors, their infrastructure and the tools they use. Group-IB threat intelligence lets users uncover illicit activities and monitor the dark web to determine if their organization is mentioned there. Group-IB's platform gives insight into threat actor activity in the MITRE ATT&CK format. Group-IB Threat Intelligence Platform can be configured with the Unified Risk Platform to automatically detect and take down malicious sites to protect a brand and its customers.[3]

Group-IB's online fraud protection platform uses global fraud intelligence, device fingerprinting and behavioral analysis to detect fraud. Group-IB device fingerprinting technology is powered by the patented Global ID innovation. Group-IB device fingerprinting identifies devices, generates unique fingerprints, tracks fraudulent activities and uncovers hidden multi-accounting, anti-detection browsers and account farming. Group-IB Fraud Protection's AI uses a combination of signature analysis and User Behavior Analysis (UBA). Group-IB's user behavior analysis covers Typing Dynamics, Touchscreen Interactions, Device Motion, App Usage Patterns and Geoprofiling.[4]

Group-IB delivers external attack surface management that automatically maps every asset and provides continuous attack surface monitoring and analysis. Group-IB's platform enriches findings with threat intelligence to assess risk and prioritize issues. The Graph tab in Group-IB's attack surface platform visualizes external IT assets and their connections. The Assets tab lists Internet-facing assets that are part of an organization's infrastructure, which can be confirmed or ignored. The Issues tab lists identified issues among confirmed assets, which can be marked as Under Review, Solved, Ignored or False Positive. Group-IB's attack surface platform checks confirmed assets for common vulnerabilities and assigns each one a risk score.[5]

Group-IB's digital risk protection solution continuously monitors and detects threats across the open, deep and dark web. Group-IB Digital Risk Protection solution implements a three-stage takedown process for violations such as scam and phishing. Group-IB Digital Risk Protection uses machine learning to detect scams, phishing and other violations. Group-IB analysts research scam groups, actors and popular schemes, creating new assets for monitoring and public reports. Group-IB puts 70+ internationally distributed cybersecurity and brand protection professionals at its customers' disposal.

Group-IB delivers anti-phishing solutions and phishing takedown services. Group-IB offers Business Email Protection against phishing and scam attacks. Group-IB Trebuchet is an automated security assessment tool for determining email security posture. Group-IB Managed XDR solution secures an email gateway using intelligence-driven behavioral analysis technology. Group-IB has Anti-Scam and Anti-Phishing modules that keep users informed about violations and brand risks. Group-IB Cybersecurity Courses educate employees about scammers, their behavior, tools and techniques.[7]

Group-IB offers automated and manual testing of the blockchain network, website and application. Group-IB's crypto security experts provide due diligence against wallets and practices such as encryption, audits and secure storage for hot, cold and hardware wallets.[5][7][8][9]

Group-IB on the record

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Group-IB full record

  1. [1]group-ib.comGroup-IB · group-ib.com · undated page, accessed November 4, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Group-IB | Prediction-First Cybersecurity and Anti-FraudGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Threat Intelligence Platform | Cyber Threat Intelligence Software | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Fraud Protection Service with Online Fraud Protection Software | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Attack Surface Management & Monitoring Solutions Platform | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Digital Risk Protection & Digital Brand Protection Services | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Solutions for Anti-Phishing and Scam Protection | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Blockchain Security: Safeguard Your Crypto Business | Group-IBGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]OT ICS Cybersecurity Threats: Tactics, Paths, DefensesGroup-IB · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Group-IB launches Cloud Security Posture Management with advanced misconfiguration detection and cloud compliance monitoring | Group-IBGroup-IB · published January 27, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Group-IB launches Digital Risk Protection availability in AWS Marketplace | Group-IBGroup-IB · published October 29, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Group-IB Threat Intelligence Reviews & Product DetailsG2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

Recorded Future full record

  1. [1]Mastercard to acquire recorded futureRecorded Future · recordedfuture.com · published September 12, 2024 · Tier A
  2. [2]Working in bostonRecorded Future · recordedfuture.com · published October 15, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Intelligence Platform | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Intelligence Graph | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Threat Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Vulnerability Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]SecOps Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Protect Assets with Geopolitical Intelligence | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Demo Center | Explore Powerful Tools | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Collective Insights® API | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Integrations for Your Cybersecurity Stack | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Managed Monitoring Service | Recorded FutureRecorded Future · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Recorded Future Announces Strategic Partnership with Wipro to Deliver AI-Powered Threat Intelligence at Global Enterprise ScalePRNewswire · published June 2, 2026 · Tier A

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