MISP: Collect and Share Cyber Threat Intelligence

Overview

MISP is an open-source threat intelligence sharing platform for collecting, storing, distributing, and sharing indicators and information about cybersecurity incidents and malware. It helps incident analysts, security teams, and ICT professionals turn threat observations into structured intelligence that can be analyzed and exchanged with trusted communities.

Organizations can run MISP on-premises, in the cloud, or as a service. Its sharing controls and synchronization support collaboration between separate instances, while its API and export formats let other security tools consume the data.

Key Features

• Store structured indicators, reports, objects, and other technical or non-technical intelligence.
• Correlate matching attributes and indicators, including through fuzzy-hash and CIDR matching.
• Share and synchronize events and intelligence between instances with configurable distribution rules and sharing groups.
• Import and export data in formats including MISP JSON, STIX, CSV, OpenIOC, and NIDS formats such as Suricata and Snort.
• Use a REST API, documented with OpenAPI, and the accompanying PyMISP Python library to integrate with other systems.
• Enrich and classify intelligence with taxonomies, MISP Galaxy vocabularies, and optional Python expansion modules.
• Automate data handling and publication through configurable workflows, and publish changes through ZMQ or Kafka.

Use Cases

• A security operations or incident response team can collect indicators from investigations and share them with trusted partner organizations.
• A threat intelligence team can connect indicators, reports, malware, and campaigns, then provide machine-readable outputs to detection tools.
• A group operating multiple MISP instances can synchronize intelligence while applying different sharing rules to different partners or data.
• Fraud and information-security teams can structure and exchange indicators relevant to their own investigations.

Getting Started

For test or production installations, start with the MISP installation options. See the README and MISP user guide for setup and operating details.

Considerations

MISP is a substantial platform intended to be operated by an organization or service provider, rather than a standalone indicator feed. Plan for deployment, configuration, access controls, and ongoing operations. The repository identifies PHP as its primary language and lists Python in its requirements; consult the installation documentation for the full environment needed for your deployment. The project is actively maintained, with recent commits and frequent releases, and its contributor base is not concentrated in one person. The AGPL-3.0 license should be reviewed when deploying or modifying the software, especially if you distribute modified versions or offer them as a network service.