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Third-Party Intelligence Module
Gain Real-Time Visibility Into the Threats Your Third Parties Face
Challenge
As organizations increasingly rely on third parties, security and risk teams
are tasked to manage the associated risks of using external vendors andcontractors. But managing third-party risk is easier said than done; 60%of organizations have experienced a third-party incident in the past twoyears. Traditional methods of managing third-party risk such as security
questionnaires help to establish baseline security controls, but they often failto stop breaches and business disruption. Even worse, third-party vendors

Benefits• Identify emerging threats to your thirdparties and fourth parties• Enhance third-party assessment quality
and speed• Identify and respond quickly to major
security events

are often slow to disclose security incidents, making it near-impossible for• Reduce operational, financial, andreputational riskorganizations to conduct effective incident response.

• Evaluate and triage compliance issues

Solution
Recorded Future’s Third-Party Intelligence module automatically measures
the observable risk of companies and products in real time. Supported bydetailed evidence and AI-enabled internet-scale indexing and analysis, it
swiftly delivers intelligence on current risks and historic trends. This module• Utilize detailed evidence and internet-scaleindexing and analysis enabled by AI• Real-time and comprehensive risk ratings• Accurate understanding of third-party andforth party security posture• Comparison of both company infrastructure
and products

provides continuous visibility into threats facing third parties, monitoring
key indicators like security incidents, ransomware extortion, malicious threat
actor activity, vulnerable infrastructure, and dark web attention.
Within the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud, patented machine learningand natural language processing collect and analyze information from overa million sources. This data is aggregated and risk-scored in real time,categorized into nine sections for monitoring vital security exposure andperformance indicators.

Recorded Future has helped
us better prioritize third-party
risk information and incorporatethat into our broader cyberthreat intelligence perspective.”
Risk Management Lead,
National Insurance Company

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Key Use Cases
Continuous Monitoring: Identify high-impact cyber events including
breaches, ransomware, and vulnerable infrastructure in real time. You’ll
immediately know about new risks and their severity, and you’ll have thecontext and evidence you need to act quickly and confidently.
Vendor Risk Assessment: Rapidly assess the current and historic risk ofyour third parties, granting instant visibility into their risk landscape.
Recorded Future automatically identifies and prioritizes key risks, helping you
identify security gaps while drastically decreasing the time it takes to conduct
a risk assessment.

Features• Collection from more than 1 million
unique sources including the dark web
underground, ransomware extortion sites,
local news reporting, and vulnerable
corporate infrastructure• Company risk scores and risk profiles that
present a current and historic view of athird-party’s threat landscape• Real-time alerting, context, andrecommended actions to better identify
and respond to third-party threats• Finished intelligence from Insikt Group,
Recorded Future’s threat research team, fordeeper analysis and context on major thirdparty security incidents• Ability to assess risk of individual products
instead of an entire company• Continuous monitoring of more than 5million companies• Vendor evaluation with an AI-enabledcompany comparison report for better
visibility into the current state andrisk history• Streamlined research with vulnerability
exposure reporting, enabling analysts topromptly assess third-party vulnerability,
minimizing the necessity for prolonged
vendor communications• Assigned risk scores to 1 million technology
products based on current and potential
exploitability, with alerts ensuring
immediate visibility of changes inrisk status

ABOUT RECORDED FUTURE
Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat intelligence company. Recorded Future’s Intelligence Cloud provides end-to-end intelligence across adversaries,
infrastructure, and targets. Indexing the internet across the open web, dark web, and technical sources, Recorded Future provides real-time visibility into an
expanding attack surface and threat landscape, empowering clients to act with speed and confidence to reduce risk and securely drive business forward.
Headquartered in Boston with offices and employees around the world, Recorded Future works with over 1,700 businesses and government organizations acrossmore than 75 countries to provide real-time, unbiased, and actionable intelligence.
Learn more at recordedfuture.com

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