Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat intelligence company. Recorded Future’s Intelligence Cloud provides end-to-end intelligence across adversaries, infrastructure, and targets.
Marie Brattberg, Chief Engineering Officer, shares details on Recorded Future and what it’s like to work there.
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What Is Recorded Future
Recorded Future is the world’s largest threat intelligence company. Operating as a Swedish-American organization with about a thousand employees globally, the company serves approximately 2,000 enterprise customers and more than 45 governments. Its primary mission is to secure the world with intelligence, providing proactive defense and security automation on a global scale.
Core Services and Platform Use Cases of Recorded Future
The platform is designed to collect data from the open web, the dark web, proprietary sources, and network netflow traffic. It structures this massive amount of data to help threat intelligence analysts isolate relevant risks from millions of daily threats. Security teams use the platform to research threat actors, understand adversary motives, and integrate automated alert signals directly into their security operations tools.
AI Technology and Future Innovation at Recorded Future
Founded during the early days of modern artificial intelligence development, Recorded Future has always operated as an AI-first company. The platform leverages fifteen years of structured data collection to automate manual analyst workflows and summarize complex threat intelligence outcomes. This long-standing foundation gives the company a competitive edge as it transitions toward agentic AI capabilities to counter increasingly automated cyber threats.
Mastercard Acquisition of Recorded Future
Recorded Future was acquired by Mastercard in a strategic transition that enhances fraud detection capabilities. By marrying Mastercard’s payment network data with Recorded Future’s threat intelligence, the combined organization aims to secure digital payments and the broader digital economy. Recorded Future continues to operate independently as its own company while leveraging the resources of the Mastercard family.
Company Culture and Career Opportunities at Recorded Future
The workforce at Recorded Future consists of high-caliber technologists, product specialists, and former intelligence community professionals. The internal culture emphasizes mutual support and collaboration, driven by a shared mission to defend customers against active global adversaries. With the rapid evolution of AI-driven threat vectors, the company offers candidates the opportunity to solve highly complex engineering and security challenges.
