Maltego Pros and Cons

It is all about the Data Aggregation! Maltego integrates with numerous data sources and APIs, allowing me to aggregate information from various publicly available online sources. It can collect data from social media platforms, websites, public records, DNS information, WHOIS records, and more. This comprehensive data aggregation provides a holistic view of the target and enables me to uncover valuable insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the transforms that Maltego provides might not be available because it hasn't added everything yet. But, in the future, Maltego will advance to add ALL OSINT sources inside to integrate everything and be the center of Threat Intel. Some of the transform also unable to use because of an error due to unable to find the available servers. Example: Stix 2 Utilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So many ways to perform investigations with integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing about it at all, even in the community edition is a powerful tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gives the ability to visualize data and unmask hidden links between different pieces of information that would otherwise stay invisible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Access to number of transform runs, they can run out quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a one-of-a-kind tool with a wide range of capabilities. The ability to show relationships between entities on the internet is what I like best about it. It accomplishes this by mining open sources and publicly available data. This enables me to quickly gather information on individuals or organizations of interest. Maltego is also very user-friendly and can be easily customized to meet my requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few things I dislike about Maltego. The first is that it can be a bit overwhelming and complex for first-time users. There are a lot of features and it can be hard to know where to start. Additionally, the interface isn't always the most user-friendly. It can be difficult to find the information you're looking for, and the layout isn't always intuitive. Finally, the search function could be better. It's not always easy to find what you're looking for, and the results aren't always accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maltego is a complete link analysis tool for investigators with insane amount of entities with features like collaboration,importing entities which makes life everyday life easier for investigators. It can display 40pages of information into a single page graph with such clarification that everything can be understood even by a beginner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With insane amount of entities,it can be quite overwhelming at times to find out what you are looking for.Although its easy to understand to a beginner but is quite troublesome to work upon as a beginner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an investigator who deals with information that can be painful to sort out, Maltego helps me sorting out connections to entities that make my daily work life a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Entities - Importing entities sometimes can be complicated, considering you deal with a lot of icons that need to be easily distinguishable.

Also, working on different charts at once can cause it to slow down. In case it crashed once, there is no way to recover the changes that you made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With the large amount of data needed to be analyzed, track anomalies, find the used loop holes to get a broader context from a defensive security front, ability to use pivots, zooming in and visualize based on entities in the given attack are truly exceptional. The abiltity enrich with personal data along with open source so that pivots are better contextualized makes the added difference Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The customizability when it comes to internal data feeds requires a little work in comparison to the ease of data ingestion in other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The report can be generated from any Maltego Entities you are interested. And results are visible on the graph. We can also open CSV files in graph and we can know how they are connected to each other. In this way, Maltego helps in showing the relationship of anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Understanding the relationship on the graph is difficult if the data is enormous. The main drawback of Maltego is its slowness while opening, saving, or exporting vast data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Exelent gpaph visualisation and transformations concept. If you have no money for Maltego Profesional you can use Community edition with your own transformations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using this tool for about one year and I have no disadvantages yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It makes it so easy to display 50 page information in a single chart. It makes our life really easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because of the lot of entities, sometimes the process is really show. There are no options of getting the chart back once the Maltego crashes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.