Farsight Security Bundles Flagship Solution DNSDB with Maltego to Significantly Advance Cybersecurity Investigations


SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 23, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Farsight Security, Inc., a leading cybersecurity provider of DNS intelligence solutions, today announced that DNSDB™ is now available to the entire Maltego community, with over 500,000 users worldwide.

Maltego is the popular platform used in cyberinvestigations to find relationships between threat indicators from across the Internet. DNSDB is now included in all versions of Maltego, including the Community Edition (CE), Classic and XL versions. 

Farsight DNSDB is the world’s largest historical passive DNS database, with more than 100 billion DNS records. “With today's announcement, Maltego users will have immediate, easy access to Farsight’s flagship DNSDB for free, which will enable them to visualize and gain insights on IP addresses, domain names and other Internet infrastructure identifiers critical to an investigation," said Dr. Paul Vixie, Chairman, Cofounder and CEO for Farsight Security, Inc.

“Maltego’s objective is to facilitate cyberinvestigations with powerful analysis tools combined with the convenient integration of rich data sets. To make data easily and more broadly available, we have expanded the Maltego Transform Hub to enable our commercial data partners to offer their data free of charge for trial/limited purposes. We are excited that Farsight Security is one of our first partners to do so. This development is just the first step towards expanding the capabilities of the Transform Hub for our users,” said Dr. Philip Mayrhofer, CEO for Maltego Technologies GmbH.

Pricing & Availability
Farsight DNSDB bundled with Maltego XL, Classic and Community Edition is available now. To learn which version is right for you and become a Maltego user, visit here.  For more information on how to use Farsight DSNDB with Maltego, read our whitepaper, “Using Maltego with Farsight DNSDB Transforms” and access our additional Maltego user resources.

About Farsight Security
Farsight Security,Inc. is the world’s largest provider of historic and real-time DNS intelligence solutions. We enable security teams to qualify, enrich and correlate all sources of threat data and ultimately save time when it is most critical - during an attack or investigation. Our solutions provide enterprise, government and security industry personnel and platforms with unmatched global visibility, context and response. Farsight Security is headquartered in San Mateo, California, USA. Learn more about how we can empower your threat platform and security team with Farsight Security passive DNS solutions at www.farsightsecurity.com or follow us on Twitter: @FarsightSecInc.

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