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Lansweeper vs Recorded Future

Lansweeper sells software that gives IT and Security teams one shared view across IT, OT, cloud, and AI. Recorded Future is a threat intelligence company that sells real-time intelligence and autonomous defense. CISO Tribune files both under External attack surface management. 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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Lansweeper vs Recorded Future: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
LansweeperLansweeper sells software that gives IT and Security teams one shared view across IT, OT, cloud, and AI.lansweeper.comRecorded FutureRecorded Future is a threat intelligence company that sells real-time intelligence and autonomous defense.recordedfuture.com
What it sells
  • Lansweeper Platform[4]Gives IT and Security teams one shared view across IT, OT, cloud, and AI.
  • Self-Service Subscription Management Portal[6]A single place to manage a Lansweeper subscription, billing, payments, and invoices.
  • 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
Not stated on its pagesBoston, United States[2]
Founded
2004[1]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
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Named customers
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Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • June 2, 2026Recorded Future announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited to expand intelligence-led cybersecurity services for global enterprises.[14]
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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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November 12, 2026November 4, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Lansweeper and Recorded Future are both filed under External attack surface management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Lansweeper's primary category is Cyber asset inventory (CAASM); Recorded Future's is Threat intelligence.
  • Lansweeper is also filed under Vulnerability management. Recorded Future is also filed under Digital risk protection and Third-party risk and security ratings.
  • Lansweeper lists Lansweeper Platform and Self-Service Subscription Management Portal. Recorded Future lists Intelligence Graph, Collective Insights, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Geopolitical Intelligence and 1 more.
  • Recorded Future is headquartered in Boston, United States.
  • Lansweeper was founded in 2004.

What it sells: Lansweeper

What Lansweeper Platform does[4]
Lansweeper discovers assets across IT, OT, cloud, and IoT. Lansweeper normalizes duplicate and conflicting records into one asset record and enriches each asset with lifecycle stage, vulnerability context, and risk scoring. Lansweeper delivers data to ITSM, CMDB, and security tools. A paid Lansweeper Platform plan includes features the Free plan does not, such as creating dashboards and exporting views.
What Self-Service Subscription Management Portal does[6]
The Self-Service Subscription Management Portal is a single place to manage a Lansweeper subscription, billing, payments, and invoices, without contacting a sales representative. It is available on Pro and Enterprise plans.

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 Lansweeper and Recorded Future

What do Lansweeper and Recorded Future sell?
Lansweeper sells Lansweeper Platform and Self-Service Subscription Management Portal. Recorded Future sells Intelligence Graph, Collective Insights, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Geopolitical Intelligence and 1 more.
Are Lansweeper and Recorded Future in the same category?
They share External attack surface management. Lansweeper's primary category is Cyber asset inventory (CAASM) and Recorded Future's is Threat intelligence.
Where are Lansweeper and Recorded Future headquartered?
Recorded Future is headquartered in Boston, United States.
When were Lansweeper and Recorded Future founded?
Lansweeper was founded in 2004.
Who are Lansweeper 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 Lansweeper and Recorded Future announced recently?
June 2, 2026: Recorded Future announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited to expand intelligence-led cybersecurity services for global enterprises.

About Lansweeper

Lansweeper sells software that gives IT and Security teams one shared view across IT, OT, cloud, and AI.[3]

Lansweeper describes organizations that assume they have visibility until they need reliable answers from an auditor, a regulator, a cyber insurer, or a NIS2 or DORA reporting deadline. Lansweeper discovers assets across IT, OT, cloud, and IoT. Lansweeper normalizes duplicate and conflicting records into one asset record. Lansweeper enriches each asset with lifecycle stage, vulnerability context, and risk scoring. Lansweeper delivers data to ITSM, CMDB, and security tools so they are working from current data.[3]

Lansweeper applies context, vulnerability data, and lifecycle signals to assess risk, forecast spend, and surface optimization opportunities. Lansweeper supports continuously verifying control coverage, detecting drift, and surfacing exposure before it becomes an incident. Lansweeper turns security findings into structured IT workflows with clear ownership, context, and end-to-end tracking.[3]

Lansweeper runs several discovery systems and then recognizes, reconciles, and revalidates everything they find. Lansweeper uses three systems for the three places assets live: the network including OT, off-network laptops, and cloud. Passive detection runs by default in Lansweeper, so devices appear even if they never answer a scan. Lansweeper matches devices on MAC, serial, and hostname, never IP, and merges them into one record that lists every contributing source. Lansweeper evaluates new scans against existing records continuously, not on a quarterly cycle.[3]

Affected Product Categorization organizes vulnerabilities according to their root causes and affected products. Affected Product Categorization fields can be used to filter, group, and sort vulnerabilities.[4]

The Free plan scans the full environment with no asset cap, and every discovered asset appears in the inventory. A paid Lansweeper Platform plan includes features the Free plan does not, such as creating dashboards and exporting views. Enterprise is the highest Lansweeper Platform plan, and some features are available only on Enterprise. The Self-Service Subscription Management Portal is a single place to manage a Lansweeper subscription, billing, payments, and invoices, without contacting a sales representative. From November 5, 2026, monitors become billable and count toward a Lansweeper plan like any other asset.[4][5][6][7]

Lansweeper offers a ServiceDesk Plus connector that manages assets and configuration items for integrations. Lansweeper offers a Customer.io connector that creates, deletes, and tracks customers on the Customer.io platform through the Track API. Lansweeper can send emails in the context of the helpdesk module and can send report and event alerts. Lansweeper lets users create specific SLAs for specific ticket types, priorities, sources or users. To use Microsoft 365 with modern authentication as a mail provider in Lansweeper, a Microsoft Cloud Services application is required.[2][4][5][6][8][9][10][11]

Lansweeper on the record

Sources

Lansweeper full record

  1. [1]CareersLansweeper · lansweeper.com · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]lansweeper.comLansweeper · lansweeper.com · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Lansweeper | Cyber Asset IntelligenceLansweeper · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Affected Product Categorization | Lansweeper PlatformLansweeper · published June 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]What's included in the Free plan | Lansweeper PlatformLansweeper · published June 11, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Lansweeper's Self-Service Subscription Management PortalLansweeper · published April 1, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Lansweeper PlatformLansweeper · published October 5, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]ServiceDesk Plus Connector | Lansweeper PlatformLansweeper · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Customer.io Connector | Lansweeper PlatformLansweeper · undated page, accessed November 12, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Send alerts via Microsoft 365 | Lansweeper ClassicLansweeper · published February 18, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Configure service-level agreements | Lansweeper ClassicLansweeper · published February 18, 2026 · Tier A

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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