Intel 471 is a cyber threat intelligence provider that helps organizations anticipate, mitigate, and neutralize cyber threats with intelligence-driven software and services. Its offering is centered on Verity471, a unified cyber intelligence platform that brings together cyber threat exposure, cyber threat intelligence, and cyber threat hunting workflows in a single environment.
Intel 471 combines cyber human intelligence, automated underground collection, malware analysis, and analyst-led reporting to turn external threat signals into practical action. Its portfolio is built to support faster prioritization and response across security operations, vulnerability management, fraud prevention, identity risk, and third-party exposure management.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Intel 471 delivers high-fidelity intelligence capabilities that help teams understand adversary activity, identify meaningful external exposures, and operationalize threat hunting and detection. Its platform supports continuous monitoring, dashboards, risk scoring, watchlists, graph-based investigation, and workflow features that help teams move from discovery to validation and remediation.
Intel 471 also emphasizes operationalization inside existing security programs. Its APIs and partner integrations support the flow of intelligence, alerts, findings, and hunt content into SIEM, SOAR, TIP, EDR, NDR, and XDR environments, while collaborative workflows and AI-assisted reporting help distribute intelligence to security, fraud, risk, and executive stakeholders.
Products and Services
- Verity471: Unified cyber intelligence platform that brings together Exposure, Intelligence, and Hunt modes so teams can pivot from threat insight to remediation and threat hunting in one workspace.
- Attack Surface Exposure: CTI-driven external attack surface management module that discovers internet-facing assets, identifies high-risk exposures, and prioritizes remediation using threat context.
- Adversary Intelligence: Threat intelligence offering focused on cybercriminal actors, their operations, targeting, infrastructure, tools, and relationships across underground sources.
- Malware Intelligence: Malware-focused intelligence that tracks families, infrastructure, command-and-control activity, and related adversary behavior to improve detection and response.
- Credential Intelligence: Continuous monitoring for compromised credentials from underground, marketplace, and infostealer-related sources, with context to support faster identity-risk mitigation.
- Vulnerability Intelligence: Threat-informed vulnerability intelligence that tracks exploit lifecycle signals, weaponization, and underground activity to support patch prioritization.
- Fraud Intelligence: Intelligence offering for fraud prevention teams that monitors underground marketplaces, compromised logins, and payment-card related activity tied to fraud risk.
- Geopolitical Intelligence: Intelligence solution that connects geopolitical developments, country risk, and state-linked or cybercriminal activity to support cyber and enterprise risk decisions.
- HUNTER: Behavioral threat hunting solution that gives analysts pre-validated hunt packages and hunt management workflows to identify advanced threats that evade traditional detection.
- Third-Party Exposure: Module for monitoring supplier and vendor attack-surface risk, exposure findings, breaches, and related threats that could affect the organization through third parties.
- Brand Exposure: Digital risk and brand protection module that identifies impersonation, phishing infrastructure, lookalike domains, fraudulent mobile apps, and other brand abuse.
- Cyber Threat Exposure Bundle: Bundled offering that combines Attack Surface Exposure, Third-Party Exposure, and Brand Exposure into a unified external exposure workflow.
- Retroactive Threat Detection: Verity471 capability that converts threat intelligence into ready-to-run retrospective detection queries across existing security tooling for faster confirmation of compromise.
- Guided Threat Hunts: Method-driven HUNTER capability that helps analysts pivot from initial hunt results with guided queries, filters, and repeatable threat hunting workflows.
Target Customers
Intel 471 primarily serves enterprises and government agencies that need timely visibility into adversaries, external exposure, and advanced threats across complex environments. Its core users include cyber threat intelligence teams, security operations centers, incident response teams, threat hunters, vulnerability management teams, fraud teams, and third-party risk or security leadership functions.
Intel 471 is especially well aligned to organizations with large internet-facing estates, distributed supplier ecosystems, high-value brands, or regulated operations where prioritization speed matters. It also fits teams that want to operationalize intelligence inside their existing security stack rather than rely on a standalone feed or research workflow.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Intel 471 offers its SaaS threat intelligence offering through AWS Marketplace for cloud procurement and subscription.
- Azure Marketplace: Intel 471 Threat Intelligence is listed in Microsoft Azure Marketplace as a Microsoft cloud offering from Intel 471 Inc.
- Google Security Operations: HUNTER supports Google Security Operations with validated behavioral threat hunt packages for Google Cloud’s security operations platform.
- Microsoft Security Copilot: Intel 471 provides a plugin for Microsoft Security Copilot that enables access to malware, adversary, breach, third-party, and vulnerability intelligence through Copilot workflows.
Key People
- Jason Passwaters: Chief Executive Officer
- Michael DeBolt: President and Chief Intelligence Officer
- Mark Huebeler: Chief Operations Officer / Chief Financial Officer
- Brandon Hoffman: Chief Product & Strategy Officer
- Steve Micallef: Chief Technology Officer
- Amy Minyard-Bishop: Chief Revenue Officer
- Joy Nemitz: Chief Marketing Officer
- Douglas Sayranian: General Counsel
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
- Employees: 201-500 employees
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No
Analyst Recognitions
- Forrester: 2021 The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Services, Q1 2021 — Contender.
