Open-source software (OSS) threat intelligence tools are publicly available cybersecurity solutions enterprises can use to protect themselves from cyber threats. Unlike security tools that directly remediate risks, threat intelligence tools focus on managing, analyzing, and leveraging threat information.
These solutions are vital because the modern threat landscape is volatile and relentless. Actionable threat intelligence is the key to robust security, as businesses must have deep knowledge and foresight on new and potent security threats to fortify their cloud environments optimally.
In this blog post, we’ll shine a light on the top OSS threat intelligence platforms and tools that enterprises can integrate into their security stack.
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What makes OSS threat intelligence tools so special?
According to Gartner, the security threat intelligence market will reach $2.8 billion by 2026, achieving a compound annual growth rate of 15.5%. Many threat intelligence tools are open-source, i.e., not closed-source or proprietary, meaning devs can readily edit and share the source code. This attribute contributes to some of these tools’ biggest benefits, namely their:
Cost-effectiveness
Flexibility
Shared maintenance costs
Transparency
Iterative collaboration
Community support
Note: Threat intelligence tools are different from threat intelligence feeds. Equally important, threat intelligence feeds feature a constant influx of data, but they typically don’t have the advanced curatorial, analytical, or reporting capabilities of cyber threat intelligence platforms and tools.
The top 8 OSS threat intelligence tools
Choosing a robust OSS threat intelligence solution will give your security teams actionable intelligence to optimize threat hunting and reinforce defenses against potential threats.
Since threat actors are constantly evolving and developing new kinds of cyberattacks, companies need to provide their threat analysts with the most cutting-edge OSS threat intelligence tools. We discuss eight such tools below, in no particular order.
1.Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP)
MISP helps enterprises document, share, cross-examine, and correlate indicators of compromise (IoCs). With numerous data models, threat intelligence feeds, event management options, and data storage and sharing functionalities, a MISP is much more than just a threat database.
Core features and functionality
Structured documentation comprising technical and non-technical data about malware samples and cyberattacks
Automatic correlation of types of malware with their characteristics and attributes
Integrations with any type of underlying IT infrastructure
Built-in threat intelligence sharing functions to distribute critical cybersecurity data to different teams
2. OpenCTI
Available at no cost on GitHub, OpenCTI is an OSS cyber threat intelligence tool that structures threat data based on the STIX 2 standards. It’s a comprehensive and robust solution businesses can use as their primary threat intelligence platform.
Core features and functionality
Centralized view of threat data from disparate sources, which helps streamline threat information management
Context-rich database to ensure that security analysts receive actionable context to support their investigations
Ability to trace and link threat information back to its source
Streamlined and automated workflows to aid security event management and remediation
3. Cuckoo Sandbox
Enterprises can feed this OSS malware analysis tool with any questionable file (such as DLL files, Python files, PDF files, URLs, and Microsoft Office files) to test for malware. Cuckoo Sandbox will then detonate that file in a secure simulation environment and report its findings. More than just flagging malware, Cuckoo Sandbox helps businesses anatomize and understand a strain of malware.
Core features and functionality
Website and file analyses across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android environments
Comprehensive behavioral analyses to trace API calls and file history
Network traffic analyses (irrespective of SSL/TLS encryption)
Modular and isolated architecture featuring a host machine and guest virtual/physical machines for malware analysis
4. TheHive
TheHive is an OSS threat intelligence tool that can help enterprises optimize their incident response capabilities. Also described as a security incident response platform or a security case management platform, TheHive has both on-premises and cloud options, making it a potential threat intelligence solution for enterprises with any kind of IT infrastructure.
Core features and functionality
Automated real-time security alerts from the rest of your cybersecurity stack
Context-based event triaging and filtering
Automated incident response
Flexible reporting capabilities, including options to add files, additional data, and project-specific metrics and KPIs
Robust Cortex engine that enables high concurrency and real-time analyses and response
5. Yeti
Yeti helps security analysts and threat hunters optimize threat intelligence management. Yeti allows businesses to manage and leverage myriad types of threat intelligence, both internal and external, via a single platform.
Core features and functionality
Database for DFIQ components, forensic artifact data and definitions, Sigma and YARA rules, etc.
API options that support high degrees of customization and tailoring for project- and domain-specific use cases
Automatic ingestion of numerous disparate threat intelligence feeds
User-friendly capabilities to add and manage threat data as well as export data in specific formats for other security applications
6. T-Pot
T-Pot is a comprehensive honeypot platform, which is a type of security platform designed to attract cybercriminals with a fake target, i.e., a decoy, to draw them into conducting a cyberattack and derive actionable threat intelligence from the attack. T-Pot supports more than 20 honeypots (including Dionaea, CiscoASA, Conpot, IPPHoney, and Cowrie) and furnishes security teams with a plethora of visualization options, including animated attack paths.
Core features and functionality
Automated honeypot implementation and management
Ability to discover the source of a cyberattack, for example, what country or IP address the attack originated from
Malware detection
Command analyzer to understand the actions of a hacker after they gain illegitimate access
7. Harpoon
Harpoon is an OSS command-line tool that can enrich businesses with strategic threat intelligence. Built upon Python 3, Harpoon automates various threat intelligence activities and processes.
Core features and functionality
Threat data collection from multiple public streams and sources, including social media websites and DNS records
Flexible integration capabilities, which allow businesses to link up with new and upcoming threat intelligence sources
Diverse export capabilities to deliver threat intelligence data in various kinds of files and formats for further processing
Simple and user-friendly command functions and automated data retrieval
8. GOSINT
Built upon Go and frontend JavaScript, GOSINT is an OSS threat intelligence gathering tool that’s ideal for collecting, managing, and analyzing threat data such as IoCs. With GOSINT, security teams and analysts can effectively gather and homogenize unstructured and structured threat data.
Core features and functionality
Automated threat intelligence collection
Modular and highly integrable architecture, allowing businesses to create collaborative relationships between multiple security tools
IoC enrichment to gain a deeper understanding of critical threats
Optimal workflows for real-time operational threat intelligence
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How Wiz can help you maximize OSS threat intelligence tools
Cloud security is incomplete without strategic threat intelligence. That’s why enterprises must choose the right OSS threat intelligence tools to boost their security stack.
However, you can’t augment your cloud security toolkit without a strong base. That’s why it’s important to adopt a unified cloud security solution like Wiz that leans on informed, cloud-native threat intelligence to protect you against actual emerging threats.
The Wiz platform incorporates Wiz TI in every one of its core components and capabilities. Our amazing research team, comprising the world's best cloud experts, enriches the platform with newly uncovered IoCs, threat behaviors, and critical security information.
To put it simply, there's no platform better informed or equipped for cloud protection.
Wiz enables organizations to reduce false positives, mitigate critical risks, and improve their ability to detect and respond to real-world cloud threats.
Lastly, don’t forget that Wiz’s research team is the only cloud-focused TI team in the world. That means that, for cloud environments, Wiz TI is unparalleled. We’ll sign off by highlighting why.
Core features and functionality
Threat center: With this in-product feed, the Wiz Threat Research team shares emerging risks and insights, detailing how your environment may be impacted and making actionable recommendations to minimize/mitigate risks and detect threats.
In-depth investigations: The team also conducts extensive research to uncover and investigate new cloud threats using tools like the Wiz Runtime Sensor.
TTPs analysis: The Wiz Threat Research team conducts thorough investigations into the various TTPs that threat actors use and integrates key findings into the platform to improve its threat detection capabilities.
IP and domain reputation: Wiz leverages in-house research and industry-leading third-party tools to identify malicious IP addresses and domains, incorporating this data into built-in threat detection rules.
Public cloud threat intelligence: Aside from maintaining an extensive database of events, actors, solutions, and strategies in the cloud security world, Wiz offers an exclusive threat podcast and a comprehensive repository of threat research.
These capabilities collectively enhance Wiz’s ability to detect, analyze, and respond effectively to cloud security risks. With Wiz TI, you can rest assured that your cloud environments will be safe from both current and future threats.
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