Recorded Future Named a Leader in External Threat Intelligence by Independent Research Firm

Company Received the Highest Score Possible in Twelve Criteria and Above Average Customer Feedback

BOSTON, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Recorded Future, the world's largest threat intelligence company, today announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026. In this evaluation, Recorded Future received above-average customer feedback and the highest possible score in 12 criteria, including Deep and Dark Web Monitoring, Roadmap, and Third-Party and Supply Chain Intelligence.

Cyber, fraud, and third-party risks increasingly converge across the same infrastructure, identities, suppliers, and financial systems. Recorded Future helps organizations understand the external environment before threat activity becomes impactful. Its platform combines proprietary collection with the Intelligence Graph®, analysis from Insikt Group®, AI-driven analytics, and autonomous capabilities, then connects the resulting intelligence to customer workflows across Cyber Operations, Digital Risk Protection, Third-Party Risk, and Payment Fraud.

"Attackers operate across domains and at machine speed. Defenders need intelligence that gives them time to act. We believe our position as a Leader reflects the trust customers place in Recorded Future to surface relevant threats early and connect them to the decisions that protect their institutions. We are expanding that work with Mastercard across cyber, fraud, and third-party risk," said Colin Mahony, Chief Executive Officer of Recorded Future.

The Intelligence Graph contains more than 200 billion nodes of specialized threat data, giving human analysts and AI systems a shared view of adversaries, infrastructure, and targets. Recorded Future is building autonomous and agentic workflows that put this context to work earlier in the decision cycle, reducing manual effort while preserving human control over consequential decisions.

"The next phase of threat intelligence depends on making reliable intelligence usable by both people and agents. We are building autonomous and agentic workflows on top of proprietary collection and expert analysis so customers can move from signal to investigation and action with context, provenance, and control intact," said Jamie Zajac, Chief Product Officer of Recorded Future.

Recorded Future is also extending its intelligence across fraud and payments with Mastercard. It's bringing external threat intelligence into third-party and supply chain risk to help teams identify exposure deeper in their extended ecosystem and make decisions with a more complete view of external risk. Together with RiskRecon, another Mastercard company, Recorded Future brings external threat intelligence into third-party and supply chain risk, helping teams identify exposure deeper in their extended ecosystem and make decisions with a more complete view of external risk.

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Research citation

The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026, Forrester Research, Inc., September 17, 2026.

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About Recorded Future

Recorded Future is the world's largest threat intelligence company, serving over 1,900 businesses and government organizations across 80 countries. The Recorded Future platform provides the most complete coverage of adversaries, infrastructure, and targets through the Intelligence Graph®, which contains over 200 billion nodes of specialized threat data.

By combining precise, AI-driven analytics with breakthrough autonomous capabilities, Recorded Future enables organizations to transform from manual threat intelligence limitations to Intelligence Operations that automatically operationalize threats across entire security ecosystems.

Recorded Future was acquired by Mastercard (NYSE: MA) in 2024. Headquartered in Boston with offices around the world, Recorded Future continues to lead the evolution from traditional threat intelligence to automated risk mitigation.

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