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Digital Shadows vs RiskIQ Illuminate comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Digital Shadows
Average Rating
6.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Digital Risk Protection (7th)
RiskIQ Illuminate
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Attack Surface Management (ASM) (30th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Digital Shadows is designed for Digital Risk Protection and holds a mindshare of 4.5%, down 7.3% compared to last year.
RiskIQ Illuminate, on the other hand, focuses on Attack Surface Management (ASM), holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.2% since last year.
Digital Risk Protection Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Digital Shadows4.5%
ZeroFOX12.8%
Recorded Future12.5%
Other70.2%
Digital Risk Protection
Attack Surface Management (ASM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RiskIQ Illuminate1.0%
CrowdStrike Falcon7.2%
Darktrace4.9%
Other86.9%
Attack Surface Management (ASM)
 

Featured Reviews

DavidJones7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Content at Pharmaflow
Has required additional context for alerts but supports monitoring impersonation and threat activity effectively
I do not rate Digital Shadows a nine or ten because there are many things that need improvement. The information we get is kind of generic. For instance, for impersonation, we don't have much detail on their history, when it was used or how it was misused. Those further details would be really helpful, but the information we receive is basic, such as when it was last registered and when it was updated, without more insight about the malicious factors. For basic support from Digital Shadows, my impression is that it is six to seven because many times we see duplications or bugs, and the quality of the alerts is not up to the mark. We have escalated many times, but we do not receive solid responses from them in terms of fixes. Digital Shadows should focus on the engineering side rather than the support aspect because support is there to help us get updates, but in terms of quick fixes, it is not as responsive. The need for improvement lies more with the engineering part in fixing issues, which is linked to support.
SimonClark - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Advisor - Director at Fort Net UK
Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well
A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful. This could be useful for insurance companies offering cyber insurance to enterprise customers, providing the insurer with a valuable way to unobtrusively, quickly, and frequently assess their customers and apply appropriate premiums for the level of risk. This would also be useful for enterprises. They could, for example, assess companies prior to a merger or acquisition. What would also be useful for any enterprise would be if their supply chain has some kind of direct digital access to parts of their network.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Digital Shadows helps our organization identify and mitigate cyber threats through their crawling of the internet, gathering information, pivoting it, and then sending those alerts to us which we monitor from our SIEM tool."
"The most effective feature for threat intelligence, in my opinion, is collecting impersonating websites."
"The most effective feature for threat intelligence, in my opinion, is collecting impersonating websites."
"Attack Surface Management provided our customers with visibility on everything in their network and domains - anything publicly-facing on the internet - and shows where they have potential vulnerabilities."
"The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
 

Cons

"The solution doesn't pick up all the brands of the URLs. I have a relatively small company name, however, the solution still misses a certain number of URLs with my company's name in it that are impersonating websites. It's not very comprehensive, to be honest."
"The solution doesn't pick up all the brands of the URLs."
"For basic support from Digital Shadows, my impression is that it is six to seven because many times we see duplications or bugs, and the quality of the alerts is not up to the mark."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
"The product scales from small to enormous, however, the pricing is not suitable for very small companies."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Digital Shadows?
Regarding the cost of Digital Shadows, I think prices are a bit higher. The information provided is already available; some of it is paid information. However, considering all the information they ...
What needs improvement with Digital Shadows?
I do not rate Digital Shadows a nine or ten because there are many things that need improvement. The information we get is kind of generic. For instance, for impersonation, we don't have much detai...
What is your primary use case for Digital Shadows?
Our main use cases for Digital Shadows are mainly using it for threat intel. For instance, we have our domain listed on Digital Shadows. Whenever we see any sort of impersonation domain registratio...
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Accenture, Pret A Manger, Human Rights Watch
DocuSign, Outbrain, The Economist Group, Rackspace, The Citizen Lab
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