Threat Intelligence Services

A World-class Threat Intelligence Provider

Threat Intelligence Services – Stay Ahead of Emerging Cyber Threats

Strengthen your security program with Toptal’s Threat Intelligence Services. Our threat intelligence specialists help organizations identify relevant risks, monitor emerging threats, and deliver intelligence that supports faster, more informed security decisions.

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Clients Served

35,000+

Total Vetted Professionals

30,000+

Toptal Total Projects Delivered

85,000+

Years in Business

15+

TRUSTED BY LEADING BRANDS

Our Services

Toptal Threat Intelligence Services

Support security operations with intelligence tailored to your organization's threat landscape. Toptal's threat intelligence specialists help collect and analyze threat intelligence so security teams can identify emerging risks, improve detection, and make informed response decisions.

Threat Intelligence Planning

Define an intelligence program aligned to your risk profile and the security decisions it needs to inform.

Threat Landscape Analysis

Map the actors, techniques, and exposures most relevant to your industry so defenses focus where they matter most.

Emerging Threat Monitoring

Track emerging threats across open, technical, and criminal sources to give security teams earlier visibility into developing risks.

Proactive Threat Hunting

Proactively search your environment for hidden indicators of compromise so security teams can identify and contain threats sooner.

Dark Web Monitoring

Surface leaked credentials and exposed data so your team can investigate potential threats before they escalate.

Brand and Domain Protection

Identify spoofed domains and phishing infrastructure to protect customers and your organization’s brand reputation.

Adversary Profiling

Analyze attacker motivations, capabilities, and tradecraft to anticipate emerging threats and prioritize the right defenses.

Threat Feed Management

Curate and operationalize indicators of compromise and threat feeds within your existing tools to enable faster response.

Malware Research

Reverse engineer malicious code to understand its behavior and strengthen detection and response capabilities.

Digital Risk Protection

Monitor your external footprint across web, social, and cloud environments to reduce exposure and strengthen security posture.

Threat Intelligence Reporting

Deliver clear, prioritized reporting that helps analysts and leaders make informed security decisions.

Incident Response Support

Provide targeted intelligence during active investigations to speed containment and improve response efforts.

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PARTNERSHIP THAT WORKS

How We Deliver Threat Intelligence Services

Our threat intelligence experts, with experience at leading companies, develop and deploy tailored solutions to meet your business needs and unique industry demands for sustainable results and long-term success.

Discover

A leader from our team works with you to understand your business challenges, pain points, and strategic goals to uncover new opportunities and identify the options to reach your objectives.

Define

Toptal leaders collaborate with your team to define your specific goals and service needs, evaluating multiple approaches and aligning requirements with your strategic objectives to define the best solution.

Develop

Once your service is defined and you have your talent or team on board, they will create your unique project timeline, process, and initial proposals, whether your goal is to strengthen your threat intelligence program, respond to active threats faster, or reduce exposure across your attack surface.

Deploy

Toptal will get to work, tracking quality assurance, handling project management, and maintaining the delivery schedule.

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Zohra Ibrahimi

Information Security Practice Lead

Zohra is a seasoned cybersecurity and risk executive with more than 15 years of experience leading enterprise risk management, cybersecurity strategy, IT governance, and regulatory compliance initiatives across Fortune 500 companies and global organizations.Zohra is a seasoned cybersecurity and risk executive with more than 15 years of experience leading enterprise risk management, cybersecurity strategy, IT governance, and regulatory compliance initiatives across Fortune 500 companies and global organizations.

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CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS

Threat Intelligence Solutions That Deliver Value

Toptal delivers leading threat intelligence services through its diverse talent network and flexible delivery models. We implement the right skills at each project phase, blending expertise from various roles for seamless execution.

End-to-End Delivery by Toptal
On-demand Talent and Teams

End-to-End Delivery by Toptal

Comprehensive project delivery, tailored to your specific requirements.

Information Security Practice Lead

Delivery Manager

Threat Intelligence Lead

Enterprise Security Architect

Cyber Threat Hunter

Threat Intelligence Architect

Cybersecurity Consultant

Security Threat Analyst

Zohra Ibrahimi

Information Security Practice Lead

Zohra is a seasoned cybersecurity and risk executive with more than 15 years of experience leading enterprise risk management, cybersecurity strategy, IT governance, and regulatory compliance initiatives across Fortune 500 companies and global organizations. As Toptal’s Information Security Practice Lead, she takes a strategic, business-aligned approach—building scalable, results-driven security programs that not only protect critical assets but also enable business growth.

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Experience

15+ Years

Rachael Karaffa

Delivery Manager

Rachael serves as a Delivery Manager at Toptal with a focus on leading diverse global teams in developing innovative solutions for our clients. She works across multiple disciplines, including technology, marketing, and management consulting. Rachael specializes in managing people and client relationships, process optimization, and driving teams toward optimal business outcomes.

Previously Managed Client

Experience

9+ Years

Israel Guzman

Verified Expert in Engineering

23+ Years

of Experience

Threat Intelligence Lead

Isra is a cybersecurity architect and threat intelligence lead with over 23 years of experience, specializing in dark web monitoring and an expert in data collection, analysis, framework development, and reporting. A highly skilled cybersecurity professional with a proven track record of success in IT expertise, Isra is also an active participant in ethical hacker events and conferences.

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Joe Bagdon

Verified Expert in Engineering

31+ Years

of Experience

Enterprise Security Architect

Joe is a seasoned security and infrastructure engineering professional with experience performing application and network assessments, writing and enforcing policies, providing defense for an enterprise environment, and administrating infrastructures. He has in-depth knowledge of information security, information technology, and information warfare. Joe is a competent Python programmer, adding automation and integration that reduces workloads.

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Anurag Yadav

Verified Expert in Engineering

10+ Years

of Experience

Cyber Threat Hunter

Anurag is an experienced security professional with a strong background in incident handling and threat hunting based on different attack frameworks. He has expertise in Active Directory and cloud security (Azure), utilizing offensive security tools such as Bloodhound to identify and mitigate threats. He's played a key role in the development and deployment of SOC infrastructure. He's delivered training to different tiers of the SOC team on security best practices, compliance, and the cyber threat landscape.

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Radu Marian

Verified Expert in Engineering

27+ Years

of Experience

Threat Intelligence Architect

Radu is a senior GenAI and knowledge graph solution architect delivering solutions for cybersecurity, investments, agriculture, and economy domains. For over 27 years, he has accomplished numerous proofs of concept and pilot projects, led standardization efforts at OASIS and ITU-T, and was granted patents for inventions in cybersecurity and enterprise knowledge management. Radu holds a master's degree in computer science from UNC Charlotte.

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Gökay Pekşen

Verified Expert in Engineering

10+ Years

of Experience

Cybersecurity Consultant

Gökay is a senior manager and principal advisor specializing in cybersecurity, information security, auditing, and regulatory standards. He is highly skilled in enterprise security architecture and is an expert at delivering sustainable protection, strengthening reputation, and enhancing digital presence while enabling effective risk mitigation to prevent financial loss.

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Nicaury Francisco Ramirez

Verified Expert in Engineering

7+ Years

of Experience

Security Threat Analyst

Nicaury is a security engineer with 7+ years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, and systems administration. She has worked in fast-paced, remote environments for years, developing excellent communication and leadership skills. Nicaury is a certified professional with proven problem-solving and analytical skills, a fast learning curve, and the ability to adapt to any team.

Previously at

On-demand Talent and Teams

30,000+ vetted professionals, ready to deploy individually or in teams.

Security Architect

Embedded Security Engineer

Security Operations Engineer

Application Security Engineer

Penetration Tester

Cloud Security Architect

Security Operations Engineer

Embedded Security Engineer

Verified Expert in Engineering

20+ Years

of Experience

Security Architect

Montasir is an InfoSec leader with 20+ years of experience managing cybersecurity and enterprise architecture. He has designed and enforced security solutions for complex IT systems, including creating five-year security technical architecture roadmaps. With solid technical expertise and a profound grasp of industry best practices, Montasir develops and executes cybersecurity strategies that effectively mitigate risks, protect sensitive data, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Previously at

Verified Expert in Engineering

22+ Years

of Experience

Embedded Security Engineer

Chris is a pioneer in ethical hacking and a Linux systems engineer with multiple certifications and more than 22 years of experience. He is well-known in ethical hacking and open source communities and mentioned in books and documentaries.

Previously at

Verified Expert in Engineering

11+ Years

of Experience

Security Operations Engineer

Randall is a cybersecurity professional with more than a decade of security operations experience with federal and state governments. He has worked for several commercial clients with great success. Randall previously worked in a network operations capacity for multiple international telecoms.

Previously at

Verified Expert in Engineering

8+ Years

of Experience

Security Operations Engineer

Blessed is a senior information security analyst and engineer with more than 8 years of experience aligning enterprise security architecture, policies, and processes with security standards and frameworks to meet business goals. He specializes in designing and implementing security solutions for enterprise-grade cyberdefense teams and conducting penetration testing. Blessed has also been in red/blue teams, implemented ISO 27001 ISMS, and operated as a security lead in a DevSecOps environment.

Previously at

Verified Expert in Engineering

13+ Years

of Experience

Application Security Engineer

Ike is a senior cloud security engineer with 13 years of experience and a solid knowledge of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) publications, cybersecurity, cloud, and DevSecOps tools. Ike is proficient in infrastructure as code, managing a CI/CD pipeline, and protecting applications, websites, cloud networks, and infrastructure.

Previously at

Verified Expert in Engineering

11+ Years

of Experience

Penetration Tester

Gaya is a cybersecurity expert who loves finding cracks in company security and creating powerful solutions to fill them. With numerous global CTF (capture the flag) competitions under her belt, Gaya excels in vulnerability management, cloud security, incident response, security awareness, and security risk management (PCI/DSS, ISO 27001, CMMC). Gaya is well versed with Qualys, Rapid7, Nessus, Splunk, Carbon Black, SentinelOne, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure cloud tools, and those in Kali Linux.

Previously at

Verified Expert in Engineering

22+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Security Architect

Subbu is a subject matter expert in information security and has more than 22 years of information technology experience. He has assisted large enterprise customers in the banking, telecommunication, and e-commerce sectors with security transformation, DevSecOps, security architecture, and implementations. Subbu’s security expertise includes AWS, GCP, IAM, enterprise security, data protection, and application security and compliance.

Previously at

Verified Expert in Engineering

15+ Years

of Experience

Security Operations Engineer

Mark is a risk assessor, program manager, security operations engineer, and architect with over 15 years of experience implementing risk reduction initiatives. He has a deep understanding of various security frameworks and tools. Mark has successfully developed budgets, risk-informed roadmaps, and project plans and has led multidisciplinary teams to effectively reduce risks and demonstrate compliance with standards, as confirmed by third-party auditors.

Previously at

Verified Expert in Engineering

24+ Years

of Experience

Embedded Security Engineer

John is an accomplished engineering professional with a proven track record of leading teams to develop cutting-edge technology solutions across a wide range of industries, including cybersecurity, embedded systems, enterprise servers, and mobile computing. His extensive experience working with embedded systems enables him to adapt to fast-paced work environments.

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UNRIVALED EXPERTISE

Our Talent Has Worked With Top Companies

Having previously worked with these leading global companies, our talent brings valuable insights and expertise to deliver world-class outcomes.

WHY ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE US

Toptal in Action

Discover the cutting-edge benefits our clients enjoy from the global Toptal network.

Toptal strengthens third-party threat visibility for a leading automotive company.

Challenge: The company’s expansion into advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving technologies increased its reliance on external software providers. Limited visibility into vendor security practices made it difficult to identify which relationships posed the greatest risk to sensitive data and ongoing product innovation.

Solution: Toptal created a dedicated vendor security assurance program and introduced a structured process for evaluating third-party threats. The team reviewed more than 600 SaaS vendors, implemented security tools to centralize risk information, and gave stakeholders a clearer way to identify high-risk providers and prioritize action.

Outcome: The company reduced security incidents and gained stronger oversight of its third-party ecosystem. Better risk visibility allowed leaders to address potential threats earlier while supporting continued investment in connected and autonomous vehicle technologies.

Toptal Ranked #1 Most Reliable Professional Services Company in America

Newsweek and Statista’s rankings were based on an independent survey of more than 2,400 decision-makers at Fortune 500s.

IBM — Newsweek's Most Reliable Companies in America 2026 ranking. Toptal is ranked #11, the highest-ranked professional services firm.

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Methodology for the Rankings

How likely the respondent is to recommend the selected company to others.

Measures the convenience of interaction with the company and efficiency of processes.

Measures the company’s cost-effectiveness and quality relative to price.

Measures whether the company consistently meets or exceeds expectations in quality and timeliness of deliverables.

Measures the company’s ability to consistently fulfill commitments and maintain customer trust.

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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Explore Insights From the Threat Intelligence Field

Read the latest articles and resources to keep you current on emerging trends in threat intelligence, threat hunting, dark web monitoring, and more.

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Michael Figueroa

27 Years of Experience

Michael is a seasoned information security leader with experience at the Advanced Cyber Security Center and Toptal. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in high-tech crime investigations from George Washington University.

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Ilia Tivin

Verified Expert in Engineering

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The Shadow Pandemic: Ransomware’s Present and Future Dangers for Corporations

Peter Matuszak

Peter Matuszak is Toptal’s Senior Writer for Business. A former investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune and policy advisor to multiple governmental agencies and officials, he now writes about tech, finance, and the future of work for Toptal Insights.

Cybersecurity: What Every CEO and CFO Should Know

Melissa Lin

Melissa has worked in ECM, tech startups, and management consulting, advising Fortune 500 companies across multiple sectors.

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