Anomali ThreatStream vs. EclecticIQ 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

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.

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• Indicators of Compromise
• Signatures
• Community Sharing

Incentivized

• 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.

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

• 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

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

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

• We have seen a positive ROI as the security monitoring is taken to the next level when it is augmented with threat intel data that Anomali provides.
• Our customers are very satisfied with the periodic threat reports that we send, which are created using Anomali ThreatStream.
• The overall business objectives are met as Threat Intel is one of the most important pillars when it comes to providing security services, and we use Anomali ThreatStream extensively for that.

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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