Even as newer trends like you-know-what continue to shake up the security landscape, the need to stay one step ahead of the bad actors. Threat intelligence helps users achieve this objective by enriching alert data with intended targets, capabilities, and motivations. This data helps users to maintain a proactive security posture. We have recently seen the panic after the warning by a prominent digital intel provider. This reflects the importance of digital threat intelligence in maintaining a secure posture.
Digital Threat Intelligence solutions enable organizations to detect threats early and prevent them from causing any damage by analyzing data from various sources, including the deep web and the dark web. The solution identifies potential threats and alerts the organizational security teams. It also helps organizations to continuously discover, monitor, protect the organization’s digital surface, and enhance the efficiency and productivity of existing security operations workflows.
The following comparison is between the SPARK matrix of the Digital Threat Intelligence Management (DTIM) market landscape for 2023 and 2024. This will allow users to gauge vendors’ abilities regarding some specific metrics.
The class toppers
Crowdstrike, Kaspersky, ThreatQuotient, Recorded Future, Zerofox, and Anomali are keeping the leader crown for 2023 and 2024.
CrowdStrike provides Digital Threat Intelligence Management through its CrowdStrike Falcon platform. CrowdStrike’s threat intelligence solutions include CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence, CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence Premium, CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence Elite, and CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence Recon. Additionally, the platform provides access to CrowdStrike IoCs, easily integrates with countermeasures, saves time, effort, and money, and offers seamless endpoint integration.
Recorded Future offers threat intelligence through its threat intelligence cloud module. The module provides threat research and reporting, proactive threat hunting and detection, dark web investigations, as well as adversary prioritization and intelligence requirements. Recorded Future also offers intelligence graphs to provide actionable insights and timely threat intelligence.
ZeroFox offers digital threat intelligence through an AI-based platform. The platform provides dark web threat intelligence to identify threat actors, get a view of the dark web forums, and evaluate cyber and physical threats. The platform uses a combination of machine learning, AI-driven algorithms, and human experts to process and operationalize threat data.
Anomali offers digital threat intelligence through its products, Anomali ThreatStream platform, and Anomali Intelligence channels. Anomali ThreatStream automates raw data collection and processing, filters out noise, and transforms legitimate data into valuable, actionable insights and threat intelligence for security teams. Anomali Threat Intelligence Channels deliver threat intelligence curated by the company’s research team.
ThreatQuotient offers a robust, open, and extensible threat intelligence platform titled ThreatQ that enhances data-driven security operations. The platform works through its unique DataLinq Engine, Threat Library, ThreatQ Investigations, and ThreatQ Marketplace. ThreatQ provides an integrated, self-tuning threat library, an adaptive workbench titled ThreatQ investigations, and an open exchange that allows organizations to rapidly identify and respond to threats.
Kaspersky offers a threat intelligence portfolio that includes a threat intelligence platform titled CyberTrace, as well as threat data feeds, threat lookup, threat analysis, threat intelligence reporting, and on-demand threat intelligence expertise services. Kaspersky’s threat intelligence provides a comprehensive view of the organizations’ security postures and offers recommendations regarding threat mitigation and defensive implementations.
Sliding backwards
Strong players like IBM and Microsoft have slid from leaders in 2023 to strong contenders in 2024. IBM’s comprehensive threat intelligence offerings include IBM X-Force Exchange, IBM Advanced Threat Protection Feed, IBM X-Force Exchange Commercial API, IBM Early Warning Feed, and IBM X-Force Premium Threat Intelligence Reports. In Microsoft’s case, heavy reliance on integrations rather than native threat intelligence tools is the likely cause. While IBM may have slipped owing to less-than-expected standout progress or unique differentiators in threat intel in an otherwise solid product.
Climbing upwards
Group-IB has broken into the leader quadrant in 2024 from the “strong contender” quadrant in 2023. Mandiant is another player that leapfrogged into the leader quadrant from absence in 2023.
Group-IB offers threat intelligence capabilities through a unified risk platform as well as products, including threat intelligence, fraud protection, managed XDR, attack surface management, digital risk protection, and business e mail protection.
On the other hand, Mandiant Threat Intelligence assists the security teams in establishing or modifying their security strategy by improving comprehensive intelligence on pertinent malware, vulnerabilities, and adversaries targeting them. This includes insights into the tactics, techniques, and procedures employed in attacks.
However, that is a comparison between 2023 and 2024 data. 2025 may throw up a lot of surprises as well.