Case Study: Hughes Federal Credit Union More Than Doubles Security Team Capacity with Recorded Future

Recorded Future® More Than Doubles the Power of Credit Union’s Security Team

Hughes Federal Credit Union, a Tucson-based credit union with more than 166,000 members, faced a rapidly growing attack surface and a small security team (Cybersecurity Manager Judy Mayoral and one analyst) that had to make critical decisions based on incomplete manual research, instinct, and trust. To gain faster, more accurate insights for vendor due diligence, vulnerability prioritization, and brand protection, Hughes turned to Recorded Future and deployed the Recorded Future Intelligence Platform.

Recorded Future integrated Brand, Third-Party, Vulnerability and SecOps Intelligence (feeding real-time risk data into IBM Security QRadar) plus Analyst on Demand, which automated intelligence, assigned numerical cyber-risk scores for vendors, and enriched SIEM alerts for prioritized triage. The result: Recorded Future more than doubled the capacity and effectiveness of Hughes’s security team without adding headcount, enabled earlier patching and focused investigations (scoring vulnerabilities before NVD publication), exposed vendor compromises and dark‑web credential leaks, helped stop fraud from exposed BINs, and uncovered about six typosquatting domains per year.

Hughes Federal Credit Union

Judy Mayoral

Vice President of Cybersecurity