MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – connect to STIX/TAXII service [5]

This post is the fifth of a series on Threat Intelligence Automation topic.
Post 1: Architecture and Hardening of MineMeld
Post 2: Foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration
Post 3: Export internal IoC to the community
Post 4: Search IoC events with SPLUNK

Long time since my last post. I was very busy creating Cyber Saiyan – a non-profit organization – and organizing RomHack 2018, a free cyber security event that will take place in Rome next September 22th.

On the field of threat intelligence automation and info sharing community building, the work continued too.

I’m working hard with italian community and we setup a STIX/TAXII network using a combination of open source sofware: MISP, OpenTAXII and MineMeld. We are now testing a complex consumer/producer network where companies (producers) can push IoC that, after validation, are injected into the consumer network, a TAXII service built on top of MineMeld.

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[ITA] Ed il primo BSides Roma è andato!

Sabato 13 Gennaio 2018 sono stato relatore, insieme ad amici e colleghi bravissimi, della prima edizione del BSides Roma con un talk dal titolo “Building an Effective Info Sharing Community“.

L’evento è stato un successo: sala piena e livello dei talk notevole – a parte il mio ovviamente 🙂

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MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – export internal IoC to the community [3]

This post is the third of a series on Threat Intelligence Automation topic.
Post 1: Architecture and Hardening of MineMeld
Post 2: Foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration
Post 4: Search received IoC events with Splunk
Post 5: Connect to a TAXII service

After building the architecture and integrating the InfoSec feeds from italian CERT-PA into MineMeld and the near-real-time SOC engine, it’s time to put another brick to build an effective community: export internal IoC to the community in a standard format so authorized parties can get it and use them as they want.

The ultimate goal is to build a community that can share IoC using a standard language and a transport mechanism (STIX/TAXXI) getting data from heterogeneous sources (more integration examples in next posts) and injecting data into the community network.

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MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration (Splunk) [2]

This post is the second of a series on Threat Intelligence Automation topic.
Post 1: Architecture and Hardening of MineMeld
Post 3: Export internal IoC to the community
Post 4: Search received IoC events with Splunk
Post 5: Connect to a TAXII service

On the first post of my threat intelligence automation jurney I wrote why I choosed MineMeld, the architecture implemented and the hardening steps. One of the goals is to connect MineMeld to heterogeneous external sources to get IoC (Indicators of Compromise) and integrate it into our i-SOC (Information Security Operation Center) near-real-time engine to get evidences of security events to be analyzed by i-SOC analysts.

In this post I show the foundation of the threat intelligence automation model: how I wrote a custom prototype to get the InfoSec feeds from italian CERT-PA (Public Administration – italian web site) and how I integrated these feeds into Splunk near-real-time engine.
I started with this integration because InfoSec has very good feeds (IP, URLs, domains) that are not just copy&paste from OSINT sources but are often updated and automatically analyzed to check that IoC are still “alive”.

This page and this page give you all the information needed to understand how MineMeld works, so RTFM before moving on 😉 Continue reading “MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration (Splunk) [2]” →

MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – architecture and hardening [1]

This post is the first of a series on Threat Intelligence Automation topic
Post 2: Foundation: write a custom prototype and SOC integration
Post 3: Export internal IoC to the community
Post 4: Search received IoC events with Splunk
Post 5: Connect to a TAXII service

Last slide at my HackInBo talk (italian) was about how to automatically integrate threat intelligence feeds into our near-real-time Information Security Operation Center (i-SOC) SPLUNK engine to reduce the time spent by SOC security analysts on IoC (Indicators of Compromise) analysis.

At the time I was testing an open source project from PaloAlto: MineMeld. It was the right choice; after extensive tests MineMeld now help me to solve the challenges I had in the past while playing with IoC coming from various threat intelligence sources: collection automation, unduplication, aging and SOC integration.

MineMeld can also share our internal IoC to the italian infosec community we are now building from the ground. We are working hard on this and I’m really confident we will succeed (want to join? DM me on twitter or in the comments). Continue reading “MineMeld: threat intelligence automation – architecture and hardening [1]” →