SecurityTrails
SecurityTrails is a comprehensive cybersecurity data platform that provides security teams worldwide with powerful APIs and data services for threat hunting, attack surface management, and cyber investigations.
Overview
SecurityTrails offers access to one of the largest repositories of historical internet infrastructure data, enabling security professionals to conduct thorough cyber forensics, prevent brand attacks, and combat digital fraud. The platform aggregates and maintains extensive datasets including historical DNS lookups, WHOIS records, hostname tracking, and domain intelligence.
Core Products
SecurityTrails API™
The flagship API product allows applications to access current and historical data at high speed. It enables users to fetch any domain, DNS, and IP-related data for enriching datasets or adding value to existing security services.
Attack Surface Intelligence™
A dedicated solution for organizations to manage and monitor their attack surface, helping identify forgotten digital assets and infrastructure sprawl.
Data Scale
- 10.19 Trillion historical DNS lookups
- 4.2 Billion historical WHOIS records
- 2.6 Billion total hostnames tracked
- 630 Million domains tracked
Key Capabilities
- Manage infrastructure sprawl and discover forgotten digital assets
- Comprehensive search across all data from a single platform
- Accurate identification of associated domains
- Curated and continuously updated datasets for fast fact-finding
- Support for cyber forensics and crime investigation workflows
Target Audience
Security teams, cybersecurity researchers, threat hunters, digital forensics investigators, security operations centers (SOCs), and organizations needing attack surface management
Key Features
- SecurityTrails API™ for domain, DNS, and IP data access
- Attack Surface Intelligence™ for attack surface management
- Historical DNS lookup data (10.19 trillion records)
- Historical WHOIS records (4.2 billion)
- Hostname tracking (2.6 billion)
- Domain tracking (630 million)
- Infrastructure sprawl management
- Associated domain identification
- API integrations with third-party security tools
- Real-time and historical data access
Use Cases
- Cyber forensics investigations
- Brand attack prevention
- Digital fraud detection
- Cyber crime investigation
- Attack surface management
- Infrastructure asset discovery
- Threat hunting and intelligence gathering
- Security data enrichment for existing tools
- Domain and DNS monitoring
- Incident response and threat analysis
Pros
- Massive historical data repository with trillions of DNS lookups
- Fast API performance for real-time queries
- Comprehensive coverage of domain, DNS, and IP data
- Easy-to-use API for integration with existing security workflows
- Curated and up-to-date datasets
- Useful for multiple security use cases from forensics to brand protection
Cons
- Pricing details not fully transparent on main page
- May require technical expertise to fully leverage API capabilities
- Primarily focused on infrastructure data, may need complementary tools for complete security coverage
Pricing
Free tier available with API key signup; paid plans available (detailed pricing on pricing page)
