Recorded Future compared with DigitalStakeout Scout, our risk and threat monitoring platform.
Scout collects open source data for security and intelligence teams and turns it into alerts, evidence and reports. Each Scout capability below is set beside what Recorded Future documents for the same capability.
18
Scout capabilities, each included with every Scout account
9
of them with no documented equivalent from Recorded Future, November 14, 2026
Each Scout capability is included with every Scout account. Each Recorded Future statement is quoted from Recorded Future’s own product pages, documentation or blog.
Stage
DigitalStakeout Scout
Recorded Future
Mentions across the open web. Tracks news, blogs, forums and websites.
Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
“providing real-time visibility and actionable intelligence across the open, closed, and dark web”Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
Mentions across public social conversation. Tracks discovery, posts and comments.
Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
“Access comprehensive, real-time intelligence and Alerts across dark web, social media, and closed forums”Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
Mentions across dark and alt sites. Tracks forums, boards, markets and websites.
Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
“brand mentions on dark web forums”Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
Discovers domains and hosts. Tracks hostnames, domains, DNS and websites.
Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
“technical analysis of DNS records and certificate data”Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
Collects information from target sources. Tracks accounts, URLs and feeds, or imports your data.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Monitors every entity around the clock. Continuous collection, aggregation and discovery.
Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
“automated monitoring of millions of sources and real-time alerting”Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
Classifies every record by risk. 20 risk categories and 1,400+ risk scenarios. People, organization and place extraction. Location inference and sentiment scoring.
Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
“automated risk scoring and deep context”Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
Alerts when a record matches your rules. Alert rules on tags, risk categories and geography. Automatic tagging, workflows and scheduled exports.
Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
“Through automated playbooks and pre-configured Alerts”Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
Reviews records in one place. Row and card views, filters, Boolean search and saved filters. Screenshot, translation and activity log.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Tags records one at a time or in bulk. System tags, custom tags and word lists.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Exports records as evidence. Evidence PDFs with screenshot, DNS, WHOIS and TLS records and a SHA-256 file manifest. CSV, XML and JSON export.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Archives web pages to your Scout account. Browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Archive from the toolbar or right click menu.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Builds recurring reports. Templates, rolling periods, AI narratives and executive summaries. Scheduled email delivery. PDF, PowerPoint and Word export.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Shares live views with your team. Dashboards per team or monitor, Discovery Grid, scheduled PDFs and SOC wall screen without a login.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Tracks trends over time. Saved questions, weekly reruns, shareable charts and image export.
Recorded Future: Threat Intelligence
“Tracking macro trends that affect the organization, its industry, and the regions where it operates”Recorded Future: Threat Intelligence
Connects Scout to your systems. REST API, webhooks and SIEM, SOAR and ticketing delivery.
Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
“integrates with your existing tech stack”Recorded Future: Brand Intelligence
Organizes monitors by team and program. Monitors on every feed type, folders, and people and asset tracking.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Manages users and access. User roles and folder level access.
Recorded Future
Not listed
Recorded Future statements are quoted as published on November 14, 2026. Confirm current details with Recorded Future.
Protective intelligence and OSINT
Every Scout capability beside Liferaft’s own pages: web, social and dark web coverage, risk classification, alerts, evidence export and reports.
Digital risk protection and takedowns
Every Scout capability beside ZeroFox’s own pages: web, social and dark web coverage, risk classification, alerts, evidence export and reports.
Real time event and risk intelligence
Every Scout capability beside Dataminr’s own pages: web, social and dark web coverage, risk classification, alerts, evidence export and reports.
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