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A smarter, faster way for security teams to share context, reduce friction, and accelerate action.
Security teams are drowning in alerts, overwhelmed by disconnected tools, and constantly scrambling to get the right information to the right people. Incident response, threat intel, vulnerability management, procurement, and HR all work in different tools — often with zero shared context — creating blind spots and friction that directly impact risk.
RFIs (Requests for Information) are supposed to bridge those gaps, but traditional methods through email threads, DMs, tickets, and manual hand-offs lead to more task switching, duplicate work, and delayed decisions.
- 84% of analysts worry about missing threats in oceans of data, according to Crowdstrike Global Security Attitude Survey.
- 70% say alert volume hurts their personal well-being, according to CISO Magazine.
- 55% of teams miss critical alerts due to ineffective prioritization, according to Mandiant Global Perspectives on Threat Intelligence.
There has never been a greater need for security collaboration that’s fast, contextual, and frictionless.
Polarity by ThreatConnect delivers a unified search, enrichment, and collaboration layer that sits on top of your entire security stack. Now, with RFI integration, collaboration happens instantly, in-context, and without friction.
Breaking Down Knowledge Silos
Polarity overlays real-time context, threat intel, and AI summaries into any tool — no integrations required. Instead of hunting through different consoles, portals, and documents, Polarity delivers a unified search and enrichment layer that sits on top of your security stack. So when you need to ask for more intel, flag an IOC, validate a vendor, or check the status of a CVE, you can do it instantly, without leaving the workflow you’re in.
This is the power of Polarity — and the RFI integration brings collaboration directly into that overlay.
What Makes Polarity Different
Most tools promise “better visibility.” Polarity delivers something deeper: real-time context wherever you work. Polarity overlays intelligence into any tool. From browsers to SIEMs to ticketing systems, Polarity functions like Ctrl+F for your entire security stack, but with more precision and intelligence.
Core Capabilities
- Computer vision: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) recognizes indicators and keywords in any window — no API, no setup.
- Federated search across 150+ tools: Highlight any text and instantly see related context from across your environment.
- AI summaries and enrichment scoring: Polarity Assistant — powered by Azure OpenAI — explains threats, identifies priorities, and suggests next steps.
- One-click actions: Share intel, annotate findings, or trigger workflows right from the overlay.
Proven Impact
- Investigation time reduced by 300%.
- One customer cut IR time from 7 hours to 37 minutes.
- Significant decreases in false positives and alert fatigue.
Polarity doesn’t require integration. It simply sees what’s on your screen and gives you the intelligence you need — wherever you are.
Introducing the RFI Integration: Collaboration Without Friction
RFIs are the connective tissue between teams — intel, IR, vulnerability management, procurement, HR, legal, and more. But traditionally, RFIs are slow and manual. Analysts must pause their investigation, switch tools, gather context, write out detailed requests, and hope they reach the right team.
With Polarity’s RFI integration, users can:
- Send an RFI from any screen — highlight text, right-click, or use the Polarity overlay.
- Configure what the UI looks like — dropdown menus, buttons, or even a fully invisible workflow.
- Route RFIs however you want — email, Jira, ServiceNow, or custom workflows.
- Customize submission flows per use case — intel requests, CVE validation, vendor checks, HR inquiries, etc.
- Layer in AI automation — generate tasks, run scans, summarize intel, or gather data automatically.
RFIs transform from manual overhead to a single effortless action performed in-context.
Real-World Use Cases Across Security and Operations
This integration isn’t just a nice-to-have. It solves real workflow challenges for key security roles — from threat intel to incident response.
Threat Intel Collaboration
Scenario: Analyst highlights an IP address or threat actor name.
What happens next:
- Polarity auto-enriches it with context from ThreatConnect and 150+ other sources.
- Analyst sends an RFI to CTI with one click.
- CTI can respond instantly — no email threads, no lost context, no copy/paste.
Value: More accurate intelligence, faster cross-team coordination, zero workflow disruption.
Vulnerability Management
Scenario: A vulnerability assessor spots a new CVE (common vulnerability and exposure).
What Polarity does automatically:
- Surfaces exploit status, enrichment scoring, and CAL™ context.
- One-click RFI triggers a scan across the environment or kicks off the VM workflow.
- Automatically routes to Jira/ServiceNow with all fields pre-populated.
Value: Faster patching, better prioritization, immediate alignment between vuln, IR, and IT teams.
Incident Response
Scenario: Responder sees an unfamiliar IOC (Indicator of Compromise) in an alert.
Polarity instantly:
- Enriches the IOC inline using AI summarization.
- Suggests risk score and next steps.
- RFI sends a request to IR leadership or CTI for validation or escalation.
Value: Moves teams from “alert” to “decision” significantly faster.
Procurement & Vendor Assessment
Scenario: Analyst, HR, or legal sees a vendor mentioned in an audit or incident.
Polarity enables:
- Highlight vendor name → send RFI → procurement validates license, relationship, or past issues.
- Documentation is automatically created and trackable across teams.
Value: Cross-functional clarity without time lost to email chains.
Why This Matters: Collaboration That Sticks
Collaboration often fails because the friction outweighs the value. Switching tools, writing long summaries, re-entering data, or tracking down the right person require too much effort to be worthwhile.
Polarity removes each of these barriers with:
- Inline, context-aware actions.
- Instant enrichment and federated search.
- Auto-routing to the right workflow.
- AI assistance that reduces repetitive work.
- Zero duplicate effort across teams.
The result: collaboration becomes effortless — reducing alert fatigue by filtering low-priority events using enrichment scoring. When collaboration is easy, teams are more likely to engage with each other efficiently and effectively.
Getting Started with Polarity
Polarity by ThreatConnect is easy to deploy and adopt — providing instant value:
- Works across 100% of tools on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- Connects to 150+ data sources.
- Cloud or on-prem deployment.
- Out-of-the-box email support.
- Optional ticketing integrations.
- Day-one value with AI-assisted context and RFI workflows.
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