Recorded Future

What is Recorded Future?

Recorded Future is a cybersecurity threat intelligence company that helps organizations detect and stop threats before attacks occur. It is owned by Mastercard.

Key capabilities of Recorded Future

• Cyber Operations: Hunt and stop weaponized threats
• Digital Risk Protection: Detect and remove external threats targeting brands and customers
• Third-Party Risk: Monitor supplier compromises and vendor vulnerabilities
• Payment Fraud Intelligence: Identify compromised cards and infected merchants
• Intelligence Graph: Correlates technical sources, dark web, open web and adversary infrastructure
• Autonomous Threat Operations: Deploys intelligence across security stacks at machine speed
• Insikt Group: Human expert analysis

How Recorded Future works

The Intelligence Graph correlates signals across technical sources, the dark web, the open web and adversary infrastructure. Insikt Group analysts add expert context, and 100+ native integrations push intelligence into security tools. The vendor says agentic processing can turn a threat disclosure into a production-ready detection in about 31 minutes.

Who uses Recorded Future?

Security operations teams, fraud teams and governments protecting critical infrastructure. It was named a Leader in the 2026 Forrester Wave for External Threat Intelligence.

Recorded Future pricing

Recorded Future does not publish pricing and sells through sales.

Recorded Future alternatives

Alternatives include Dropzone AI and Prophet Security for AI SOC analysts and 7AI for agentic security operations.