Introduction

Overview

This documentation provides an overview of understanding and using Validin’s Platform for triage and investigation, threat infrastructure tracking, proactive lookalike domain discovery, and surface area assessment.

Validin is a DNS and public infrastructure intelligence company, leading the way to world-class proactive data and insights. Validin thoroughly maps and indexes the public DNS space regularly to build a uniquely comprehensive mapping & history of global DNS state, as well as dozens of unique insights.

What is Validin?

The Validin Platform enables security teams, threat researchers, and threat hunters to search, discover, and explore connections between known and unknown infrastructure. Validin simplifies discovery and research through tooling and interfaces designed around security experts’ needs and use cases.

By leveraging Validin’s uniquely comprehensive data, we deliver:

• A single source for investigating domain and IP DNS state and history, certificates, reputation, and relationships to other domains and IPs
• Reduced investigation and response time during security incidents
• Discovery of unknown threats to you and your customers
• Seamless pivoting through dozens of domain, IP, hosting, and certificate features
• Proactive identification and monitoring of targeted threats

Purpose of the documentation

This documentation provides first-time users an overview of the Validin Platform and guidance on how to leverage the platform to accomplish common workflows.

Scope and Limitations

This documentation covers all major features of the Validin Platform. As such, it is intended for distribution to end users of the web-based UI for the Validin Community Platform and Validin Enterprise Platform within your organization. System administration and developer guides for integration are documented separately.