Anomali ThreatStream vs. ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Operations Platform

Anomali ThreatStream is excellent in scenarios where we deliver Managed Security Services to customers. It offers exhaustive volumes of information in the form of threat bulletins, IOCs, Threat Actor profiling, and details related to campaigns in the wild which can be used to a great extent by MSSPs. For an enterprise SOC, I believe it is a little less suited purely because of the pricing aspect as it is slightly towards the expensive side of the spectrum.

Incentivized

If ThreatConnect is going to be used to create playbooks the required technical knowledge and try and error that is required may not be for everyone. The application provides an app builder capability that is really useful but in order to be used the user needs to have intermediate to advanced programing abilities.

• Indicators of Compromise
• Signatures
• Community Sharing

Incentivized

• The user interface, perhaps there is some room for improvement although it is good already.
• Confidence assigning process for IOCs needs to be more robust and transparent.
• While integration with SIEM solutions is a cakewalk, there is definitely added value if SIGMA rule conversion and YARA rule creation are provided from the platform.

Incentivized

Many of the products that can be used to be ingested into a security event management software can be cumbersome with threat streamThere are many opportunities to continue fine-tuning the environment and providing great context in regards to threat research. When compared to other products threat stream stands out from usability and features.

Incentivized

• After the Initial startup cost, it has overall had a positive impact by increasing efficiency of the team and freeing up analysts to do manual threat hunting

Incentivized