Cisco Threat Grid vs ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) comparison

Cisco Threat Grid crowd-sources malware from a closed community and analyzes all samples using proprietary, highly secure techniques that include static and dynamic (sandboxing) analysis. It correlates the results with hundreds of millions of other analyzed malware artifacts to provide a global view of malware attacks, campaigns, and their distribution. Security teams can quickly correlate a single samples of observed activity and characteristics against millions of other samples to fully understand its behaviors in a historical and global context. This ability helps analysts effectively defend against both targeted attacks and the broader threats from advanced malware. Threat Grid’s detailed reports, including the identification of important behavioral indicators and the assignment of threat scores, let you quickly prioritize and recover from advanced attacks.

The ThreatConnect Platform allows security teams to go beyond managing threat intel to operationalizing and making threat intel actionable. The Platform is built on a market-leading threat intelligence platform that includes a modern analytics engine leveraging machine learning, orchestration and automation, case management, and an extensible API along with a marketplace of apps to seamlessly connect tools into the platform.

Threat Intelligence Data Model, Library and Scoring - Native threat intelligence management built into the Platform that ingests dozens of commercial and open source threat feeds, as well as intel shared via STIX and TAXII, then normalizes and scores the intelligence making it ready for action.

Analytics Engine - A key differentiator in the ThreatConnect Platform is our analytics engine – CAL – that leverages machine learning and provides multiple capabilities such as: Community-powered insights on threats and indicators across ThreatConnect users, a “Rosetta Stone” that automatically translates the aliases of threat actor groups used across the threat intel landscape, a series of intelligence feeds that marry our massive dataset with our cutting edge tradecraft and analytics to bring novel datasets that nobody else is talking about, and Report Cards that allow you to track how open source TI feeds are performing in the real world.

Threat Graph - ThreatConnect’s Threat Graph visualization is a game changer that provides an environment where analysts can quickly explore, pivot, and gain insight into the connection between seemingly disparate intelligence and data points to get a comprehensive picture of a threat to the organization.

Low-Code Automation and Workflow - Low-code security automation and workflows are core capabilities of our Platform, enabling CTI and SecOps teams to gain efficiencies, improve consistency, and increase their efficacy by standardizing on specific processes and workflows, and automating repetitive tasks, processes, and playbooks, generating significant ROI for security teams by reducing the manual burden on analysts.

Browser Extension - Allows analysts to instantaneously scan and identify relevant pieces of information from any web-based resource with a simple click of a button. It allows analysts to quickly understand what is currently known about an indicator and to add it to the Threat Library to aid in future analysis and investigation efforts, as well as translate threat actor aliases in real-time.