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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

Recorded Future and Fortinet FortiGuard are competitors in the cybersecurity industry. Fortinet FortiGuard holds an upper hand due to its wide-ranging security features and integration with existing systems.

Features: Recorded Future provides real-time threat intelligence, predictive analytics, and data enrichment. Fortinet FortiGuard offers multi-layered security, including firewall, intrusion prevention, and antivirus services. The key difference is Recorded Future's focus on analytics while Fortinet FortiGuard integrates extensive security protocols.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Recorded Future is cloud-based and simple to integrate, with responsive customer service. Fortinet FortiGuard provides both on-premise and cloud options, which can be more complex to set up. However, it compensates with a wide support network and resources.

Pricing and ROI: Recorded Future demands a considerable initial investment, but offers high ROI through detailed threat intelligence. Fortinet FortiGuard also requires significant upfront costs, yet its value lies in its comprehensive security offerings, making it a sound investment.

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiGuard

Ranking in Threat Intelligence Platforms

24th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Recorded Future

Ranking in Threat Intelligence Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Digital Risk Protection (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Threat Intelligence Platforms category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiGuard is 0.9%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Recorded Future is 14.8%, down from 19.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Threat Intelligence Platforms Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Recorded Future	14.8%
Fortinet FortiGuard	0.9%
Other	84.3%

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Yaw Agyare

Manager at Volta River Authority

Threat intelligence has consistently minimized downtime and safeguarded revenue

Fortinet FortiGuard's machine learning capabilities contribute to our cybersecurity by performing numerous predictions and assessing possibilities, enabling us to prepare ahead for potential incidents. I have benefited from automated threat response, which is absolutely brilliant because if we have to go through logs to see what is going on, we would never finish. Automating these things allows alerts to be given so we can concentrate effort on critical areas, helping us to optimize our resources effectively. We are also looking at automating the response, where response can be automated, and then we can focus on forensic investigations to understand what happened and see whether we need to tweak the automation to make it work better. The benefits I gain from using Fortinet FortiGuard include peace of mind. It has contributed to ensuring that we are always available and can meet our availability targets. This means that productivity is maintained, and revenues will rake in as planned. The moment something gets through and causes a breach, likely causing downtime, it means you're losing money.

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Dr. Merrick Watchorn

Chief Executive Officer at The Watchorn Innovation Group, Inc. (TWIGI)

Traceless online searches, stable, and scalable

There is a semantic oncology dynamic relationship between how the MIGR Tech framework needs more data infusion enrichment capabilities. To be clear, what the vendor is doing is of a high standard, and my only critique is that they need to make new enhancements. I am aware that the vendor is making a concerted effort to add additional information to their repository, and it is something they actively do. The vendor has publicly stated that they will work on this, and I always pay attention to make sure they adhere to that. This does not change over time. The export feature of the recording needs to stop being so restricted. When they record in order to save themselves by operations, I would expect that as a super user, if I asked to download the dataset I'm looking for, I would not be limited in my data downloads. One of the cool things is, let's say we do our entire research and we want to save all of the materials that were returned, and that special custom search that we made, we can export that into a CSV file. The problem is it gets restricted. So sometimes when I say it's restricted, we don't get all the data that we saw online. So then we have to go and manually search for the specific thing we're looking for. I would like to have the URI and whatever value set that I search off, and for the NLP package to not be stripped out. It's like saying I want to do a Pcap analysis. Don't strip out the Pcap when I asked to see Pcap. That's what they're doing. They do this for many different reasons. One of them is, imagine if everyone downloaded datasets that are very large and it brings the whole system down.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The best features in Fortinet FortiGuard that I appreciate are the nice interface, ease of use, and straightforward administration and setup."

"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and efficiency."

"The benefits I gain from using Fortinet FortiGuard include peace of mind; it has contributed to ensuring that we are always available and can meet our availability targets, which means that productivity is maintained and revenues will rake in as planned."

"The most valuable feature is Recorded Future's protection of exposed customer data on the hardware side."

"The tool is helpful in vulnerability assessment of zero-day vulnerabilities and phishing domains. The solution provides information on any domains of the organization that has undergone phishing or any other cyberattacks."

"The tool can integrate with a lot of security control and proactive protection devices."

"Recorded Future allows me to maintain very accurate alerts."

"Recorded Future has some important strengths. It has a long history of success in the market and is known for excellent threat intelligence. Its team is skilled at using AI to search for and report on threats. For many years, it was seen as the best in the industry."

"As a threat intelligence tool, it's very helpful."

"The most valuable features of Recorded Future are the useful alerts it provides. If we are monitoring a domain, the solution will provide us with an alert in a prompt manner. It is simple for clients to receive alerts. The advanced search is useful for more accurate filter results."

"Has the ability to conduct and build any query without limitations."

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Cons

"If the tool can be cheaper or less expensive, it can be good for users."

"I think that automated response could be improved if they can add automated response features into Fortinet FortiGuard."

"Currently, for our usage, the areas that have room for improvement are pricing and customization."

"The tool should improve its third-party supply chain risks because there is a lack of visibility."

"At present, my clients need to be trained by me or another organization on how to use Recorded Future and how to get the best out of it as an analyst, engineer, and administrator. It would be better if clients could directly learn these things without having to go through me or other organizations."

"The solution would benefit from introducing automation."

"Recorded Future is a very expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved."

"We can get the data of different malware active throughout the globe, but it would be good if we can do sandboxing of a file. For example, on Any Run, we can perform sandboxing of malware along with their intel about a particular file or hash. It would be great if they have a feature like that."

"While I don't think the tool is weak, its position isn't as dominant as it once was. Other companies like CrowdStrike and Mandiant are now challenging them in many areas. One downside is that Recorded Future can be complex for customers to use and understand. This isn't easy for clients to navigate."

"When you add one website to Recorded Future, it should automatically call all other websites and social media platforms."

"It sometimes detects false positives and reduces the overall accuracy of the system."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If one is very cheap and ten is very expensive, I rate the tool's price as a six to seven."

"There appear to be up to five different levels, with the most expensive version costing around $95,000 to $105,000 a year for subscription services."

"The biggest disadvantage of Recorded Future is the cost here in Eastern Europe. The solution is correctly priced for big companies who have the money to invest in such solutions. Also, the solution is useless on its own, which means that you have to invest in other solutions with which Recorded Future can be integrated. At present, Recorded Future can cost 60,000 euros per year. I am able to offer my clients a 5% to 10% discount, but in this region, the cost is still prohibitive even with the discount. If Recorded Future were more flexible in terms of price, there would be better sales opportunities in Europe and Eastern Europe, in particular, because we have more small- and medium-sized companies here."

"I would rate the solution’s pricing a seven out of ten."

"The price of the solution is worth it. The overall performance of the solution outweighs the cost."

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

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Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiGuard?

Price-wise, the product is not too cheap. I can say that the price is based on the product's quality. If one is very cheap and ten is very expensive, I rate the tool's price as a six to seven.

What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiGuard?

If the tool can be cheaper or less expensive, it can be good for users.

What is your primary use case for Fortinet FortiGuard?

I use the solution in my company to control SCP. I use the tool to set rules for vulnerability assessments and application rules, as well as segmentation for the DMZ.

What do you like most about Recorded Future?

The most valuable feature of Recorded Future is how it detects everything regarding our domain.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Recorded Future?

I am not the person responsible for purchases, but it's known that Recorded Future is expensive, with a personal rating of eight for cost.

What needs improvement with Recorded Future?

Their research capabilities and the human aspect should be more effective. The Insikt Group covers a narrow range of areas, which doesn't reflect my needs. Their research should be wider and more i...

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Overview

As cyber threats continue to grow and evolve, so does the need for innovative solutions and reliable threat intelligence. Using millions of global network sensors, FortiGuard Labs monitors the worldwide attack surface and employs artificial intelligence (AI) to mine that data for new threats, ensuring you are prepared for what’s coming.

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Recorded Future is a powerful and effective cyber threat intelligence (CTI) platform that aims to empower administrators to protect their organizations from threats, both known and unknown. The machine learning engine that Recorded Future utilizes can process the same amount of data that 9,000 analysts working five days a week, eight hours a day for an entire year can process. It simplifies threat detection and remediation so that organizations can focus on other tasks.

Recorded Future Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy Recorded Future include:

Quick threat identification and resolution. The suite of threat detection and resolution features that Recorded Future provides enables users to find and react to threats faster than users who employ their competitors. Organizations can identify 22 times more threats 10 times faster than they would have been able to with any other solution. They can also resolve these threats 63% faster than they were able to before.

Access far-reaching deep insights. Recorded Future gives users the ability to expand their vision beyond that which is immediately visible to them. They can set Recorded Future to detect issues that originate outside of the immediate vicinity of their network. Organizations can utilize machine learning to analyze for links between themselves and the dark web. This provides users insights as to what their vulnerabilities are and gives them insights that they can use to remediate any issues that have arisen or will arise.

Customization. Organizations can integrate Recorded Future with a wide variety of other security tools. If the organization feels that Recorded Future is lacking the capability that they need, then it can expand its toolbox by combining it with other solutions. Additionally, users can easily create dashboards and modify them to best meet their objectives as their needs change.

Recorded Future Features

Some of the many features Recorded Future offers include:

Vulnerability scanning tools. Recorded Future is built with the ability to scan for, identify, and score potential vulnerabilities in real time. It searches a wide variety of sources for information on the risks that an organization faces. This information is analyzed and scored for severity in real time. These tools enable users to prioritize the most severe threats over those issues that will only be nuisances.

Threat authentication. Users can set security protocols that Recorded Future leverages to reduce false positives. It has tools that compare the detected threats against the organization’s protocols. This allows the system to notify administrators whether they are looking at an actual threat or simply a mistake that the system initially misidentified.

Attack surface intelligence. Organizations gain the ability to see the points of vulnerability that would normally be invisible to them and would only be visible to outside attackers. This tool fully exposes the environment that surrounds their network. Everything from historical data going as far back as 10 years to real-time information is gathered so that administrators can create the best possible security strategy for their organization.

Reviews from Real Users

Recorded future is a solution that stands out when compared to its top competitors. Two major advantages it offers are the threat research tools that it provides and the threat monitoring capabilities that it enables users to leverage.

A security operations lead at a comms service provider writes, “Recorded Future covers a lot of different use cases. For example, we are using it for threat intelligence research. We do use the tool to make active research on what is found around the threat. We look at patterns, for example, and see what can be elaborated on from that.”

They also write, “We can also use it for active monitoring in the customer interface. We can monitor the business side of a campaign. We can monitor for specific threats or market activity on the dashboard. We can develop queries to run in a continuous mode in order to get the best reviews.”

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Fujitsu, Regions, SITA, St. Jude Medical, Accenture, T-Mobile, TIAA, Intel Security, Armor, Alert Logic, NTT, Splunk