MISP is an open-source platform dedicated to threat intelligence and information sharing. But what does the platform allow you to do, and what is the MISP Project?

The MISP platform is eponymous for the MISP project, was originally titled MISP for Malware Information Sharing Platform. As its usage has grown over the years, users have made a unique use of it and its contributors (MISP is open-source) developed new features for the platform. MISP was no longer mostly dedicated to sharing information about malwares, but became a platform to share information and all types of threat intelligence.

Today the MISP project refers to an open-source platform dedicated to threat intelligence and information sharing, at large.

Key features of MISP

As an analysis and information sharing platform, MISP deals a lot with IOCs. The platform allows:

• Importing of IOCs in various formats
• Qualification and sharing across the community
• Exports of the IOCs for detection systems

These tasks can be done via APIs, scripts, or manually for some cases.

This list being not exhaustive 😉

Getting started with MISP

Getting started with the platform is straightforward. Most tasks (like user settings, feed settings, and import/export of data, software updates) are manageable via the GUI, which has already been customized to a high degree.

Synchronization, correlations, and automation within MISP

The core of MISP! Automation speaks for itself, synchronization is much more specific to MISP. Synchronization is about automated sharing processes (in reception and distribution), and the implementation of distribution rules that allow users to distribute information across multiple instances with specific requirements.

Feeds

Setting up the import of feeds is also a straightforward task. It can be done via the GUI. For the feeds, some communities provide direct feeds upon request, which are dedicated to various sectors. Feeds can be sorted, filtered, and the data itself fully pulled from the source or just “fetched” in order to save space while receiving important information.

A knowledge base

MISP Project also includes the development of an important knowledge base to allow users to take advantage of its utilization, support analysis processes, and increase the efficiency of information sharing. You can find illustrations of this knowledge base within the Galaxy tags, Taxonomies, and MISP objects templates.

Standards development

Finally, the MISP Project works towards the development of information sharing standards (MISP Core format, Object templates, Galaxy format, Taxonomy format, Threat Actor Naming (https://www.misp-standard.org/rfc/threat-actor-naming.html) and SightingDB format. See (https://misp-standard.org/standards/)

It is not possible to cover all MISP features in a post. I recommend you see the release updates page, to see the last features implemented, and basically the MISP website for a detailed list of its current features.

To learn about the MISP Project, visit https://misp-project.org

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