Why customers choose Bitsight vs. Recorded Future

In today’s competitive cybersecurity marketplace, how do you cut through the noise of so many options? Independent evaluation of industry competitors is vital in assessing offerings.

Frost & Sullivan Institute, a trusted market research leader on global security trends, has recognized Bitsight as a Leader in the Frost Radar™ for External Attack Surface Management (EASM).

Additionally, KuppingerCole, the leading independent analyst company for identity and security, has named Bitsight an Overall Leader in the 2023 Leadership Compass for Attack Surface Management report.

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Bitsight vs. Recorded Future: Capabilities

	Bitsight	Recorded Future
External Attack Surface Management Leader	Placed top right as Leader on Frost Radar™ report, recognized as top 3 in Innovation	Listed as Provider¹
Attack Surface Management Leader	Recognized by KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Attack Surface Management	Not listed²
Cyber Risk Ratings Platform Leader	Highest total score earned and Leader according to the Forrester Wave, Cyber Risk Ratings Platforms	Listed as Performer³
Correlation of insights and security rating to real-world outcomes	Correlated to real-world risk, validated by independent studies from Marsh Mclennan, Moody’s, Gallagher Re and more	No correlation found between product data and real-world risk⁴
Comprehensive data collection capabilities	Bitsight data collection includes proprietary Internet scanner, the largest sinkhole, and other technologies. Scans both the IPv4 and IPv6 web spaces	IPv4 and IPv6 scans only available through integrations⁴
Ability to identify and attribute assets across an expanded attack surface	Comprehensive Exposure Management powered by Bitsight technologies like Groma and GIA. More than 4 billion-plus routable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses scanned daily	Breadth of daily asset identification capabilities not listed⁴
Demonstrated return on investment (ROI)	297% ROI. See the calculator	ROI data not listed⁴
R&D, investment, and product roadmap	64 patents to date and the largest R&D investment. View latest announcements	Number of patents not listed⁴
Cyber threat intelligence: Solutions	Real-time cyber threat intelligence from across the clear, deep and dark Web	Threat intelligence is primary offering⁴
Cyber threat intelligence: Data quality	Provides full & real-time visibility, detecting immediate and emerging threats	Lack of real time and comprehensive collection of DDW data. Lag time of 4-5 days in some markets
Cyber threat intelligence: Analysis & reporting	Bitsight IQ harnesses GenAI to transform vast volumes of CTI data into actionable insights for faster cyber threat response	Limited GenAI-based analysis or reporting
Analytics and insights on the impact of security programs	Governance and analytics include detailed industry peer and competitor benchmarking capabilities and root cause reporting	Analytics do not include benchmarking or peer reporting⁴
Remediation plan development to prioritize efforts	Comprehensive analytics displayed in dashboards within SPM app help easily identify and prioritize findings to remediate within organizations and their vendor ecosystem. Allows companies to created detailed remediation plans targeting specific risk vectors	Intelligence details allow users to prioritize and plan remediation actions⁴
Executive reporting: Dashboards and exposure reporting	30+ pre-designed, out-of-the-box reports communicate ratings and exposure findings and changes. Executive reports include 18 months of data to provide historical context to security performance. Read about external attack surface management	Analyst Services team provides reports with executive summaries and threat details. Number of months of historical data is not listed⁴
Comprehensive strategy, vision, and innovation	Pioneered and continues to lead the cybersecurity ratings market while also expanding cyber risk management capabilities to include innovative attack surface and threat intelligence solutions. Frost Radar™ ranked Bitsight as top 3 leaders in their Innovation Index.	Not listed as a Top 3 Player in Innovation Index in 2024 Frost Radar™ EASM report¹

¹Data from Frost Radar™: External Attack Surface Management, 2024
²Data from 2023 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Report for Attack Surface Management
³Data from The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2024
⁴Information from Recorded Future website

Bitsight vs. Recorded Future: Customer Reviews

	Bitsight	Recorded Future
Gartner view reviews	4.5/5	4.3/5
G2 view reviews	4.6/5	4.6/5

Frost Radar™: External Attack Surface Management, 2024

“Bitsight is a leading provider of EASM solutions supported by strong growth and innovation strategies. Its acquisition of Cybersixgill presents a significant opportunity to enhance growth potential and market Leadership.”

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Bitsight vs. Recorded Future Overview

Bitsight

With more than 3,100 customers and 64 patents, Bitsight is a global leader in cyber risk management, specializing in external attack surface management, third-party risk monitoring, vulnerability detection and response, cybersecurity analytics, and financial risk quantification. Bitsight pioneered the security ratings industry in 2011, and today it’s data scanning capabilities now encompass:

40 million-plus monitored organizations
250 million-plus host names
4 billion-plus routable IP addresses

Recorded Future

Recorded Future, founded in 2009, is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. The company offers threat intelligence, including the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud for real-time insights into adversaries, infrastructure, and targets. Key services include Brand Intelligence, SecOps Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence, Attack Surface Intelligence, and Third-Party Intelligence. Recorded Future was acquired by Mastercard in 2024 for $2.65 billion.

Proven Data Correlation

The Bitsight Security Rating provides an objective, data-driven lens to view the health of an organization’s cyber security program.

Bitsight data is independently verified to correlate with an organization’s risk of a security incident or data breach. See reports by AIR Worldwide, IHS Markit, Marsh McLennan, and Moody’s Analytics, demonstrating this critical connection.

Per Moody's Analytics, Bitsight Analytics is also correlated to financial risk and firm value.

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Trust Matters

Security leaders need solutions that help them identify and mitigate risks in their own organizations and broader third party supply chain, including vendors, suppliers, and business associates. Attackers continue to exploit known vulnerabilities and target critical third party suppliers to gain access to sensitive data or inflict operational harm. With the growing criticality of cybersecurity risk rating platforms in the global marketplace, trust and data accuracy matters.

Bitsight is committed to creating trustworthy, data-driven, and dynamic measurements of organizational cybersecurity performance derived from objective, verifiable information. In 2017, Bitsight helped create the "Principles for Fair and Accurate Security Ratings,” (PDF) a series of practices developed alongside some of the world’s largest and most risk-focused companies. These Security Ratings Principles affirm the critical role of security ratings in society and the important responsibility that Bitsight holds in creating these measurements.

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