DomainTools and Farsight Security Join Forces to Power Threat Hunting via DomainTools Iris Investigation Platform

Cybersecurity professionals can now search the market's leading Whois and DNS data sets in one integrated SaaS product

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Feb 02, 2017, 02:01 ET

SEATTLE and SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- DomainTools and Farsight Security, Inc., the leaders in DNS-based cyber threat intelligence, today announced a partnership to deliver Farsight's market-leading DNSDB data via the DomainTools Iris investigation platform. Farsight DNSDB is the world's largest historical DNS database, containing more than 13 billion DNS observations. This resource, combined with DomainTools' comprehensive domain profile data, empowers security analysts to conduct complete investigations within Iris. Instead of toggling between multiple threat portals, analysts enjoy a more streamlined workflow and broader and more timely insights within a single investigative environment. In addition to Farsight Security, DomainTools has also integrated three other unique and very powerful DNS data sources in the same release, ensuring Iris has the broadest passive and active DNS data sets available anywhere.

Cybercrime poses a real, global and persistent threat to business, government, and financial institutions, and is one of the fastest growing economic crimes in the world (PwC). Security teams need increasingly effective and comprehensive products to streamline their important threat intelligence and incident response work. Forward-thinking security vendors are increasingly working together to bring these needed advances to bear for their customers.

"Farsight's passive DNS data is widely regarded as the gold standard for its completeness, timeliness, and accuracy. By integrating this data with our uniquely powerful DomainTools profile data, we've made Iris the most comprehensive threat intelligence platform available to security teams today," said Tim Chen, CEO of DomainTools.

Dr. Paul Vixie, CEO of Farsight Security, adds "DomainTools and Farsight each have market-leading data sets used by the most sophisticated security organizations worldwide, often in parallel. Our many mutual customers have been asking us to work together to deliver a unified solution and I'm thrilled to see our data now in line within the powerful Iris platform."

The Iris platform and its corresponding API allow network defenders to comprehensively surface and map attack infrastructure and is the market's most effective tool for threat actor attribution. Connecting attackers to the specific domains, hostnames and IP addresses they control allows security teams to create customized rules to secure their network through whatever technologies they are using in-line. The Iris platform's rapid adoption has made it the go-to investigation product for security teams and law enforcement agencies worldwide, with thousands of global users including over one third of the Fortune 100.

The new Iris platform is now available by contacting [email protected]. DomainTools will exhibit and demo Iris at RSA Conference 2017 at Booth #N3123. Farsight Security will also be showcasing their solutions at RSA at Booth #N3126.

About DomainTools
DomainTools helps security analysts turn threat data into threat intelligence. We take indicators from your network, including domains and IPs, and connect them with nearly every active domain on the Internet. Those connections inform risk assessments, help profile attackers, guide online fraud investigations, and map cyber activity to attacker infrastructure. Fortune 1000 companies, global government agencies, and leading security solution vendors use the DomainTools platform as a critical ingredient in their threat investigation and mitigation work. Learn more about how to connect the dots on malicious activity at http://www.domaintools.com or follow us on Twitter:@domaintools.

About Farsight Security
Farsight Security provides the world's largest real-time threat intelligence. With more than 200,000 DNS observations per second, we provide the Internet's view of an organization and how it is changing purposely, inadvertently or maliciously. Our customers include healthcare, banking, oil & gas as well as government and law enforcement. To learn more, please visit https://www.farsightsecurity.com.

SOURCE DomainTools