EclecticIQ Platform vs. Proofpoint Emerging Threat Intelligence

ElecticIQ has an architecture where it usually needs decent computing power within the organisation. The central console along with the ELK servers and PostgreSQL sever needs their own space in a distributed setup. This could be a little too expensive for small-scale organisations. But for the organizations having mid to large-scale networks. EIQ is a decent solution to serve the purpose.

Incentivized

Despite the fact that it is a program that monitors work at all times, I have not felt that it violates my privacy and hinders my work or makes it impossible for me to do so. For this and because it looks phenomenal when acting, I give it a 9 and I recommend the final consumer to try it to give an extra barrier to checking their emails in detection of extra malware that their antivirus does not do.

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• Effective correlation of IOCs
• Averaging out the Confidence Score based on different intel sources.
• Serves as an excellent liaison points between the Intels and SIEM/SOAR stack.

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• Mitigation Email notification
• Quarantine ITEMS

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• Misses on a global search bar which can directly gives out the result like VirusTotal.
• The GUI could be more friendlier. Too many filters and graphs may overwhlem the user sometimes.
• The ElasticSearch(searching for IOC in the in-house EIQ database) is a little slow compared to its counterparts.

Incentivized

• I think is perfect now Specially for end users
• Probably better communication before send updates to end users

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The most important feature of EclecticIQ which gives it an edge compared to other TIPs is that it performs segregation of IOCs based on the relevance of it and the links that IOCs might have which other adversaries. The graphical format mapping where the user can easily figure out how the IOCs have connections to different binaries is another advantage. One can set the half-life time for an IOC which will reduce the confidence score as per one's need.

Incentivized

more than against them is to complement secure solution adding one more layer to filter more threats with NordLayer connection secure gateways on internet !!!

Incentivized

• Positive: Effective usage of all the premium Intels in a uniform fashion. No need to log in to each tool time and again.
• Positive: SOC Analysts spends lesser time on the internet and the analysis for the IOCs with graphical format is fulfilled by EclecticIQ.
• Negative: Higher costs over the resource utilization in the initial setup.

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• For sure tons of man hours form equal to $$ for IT department

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