monoidic / intelmq

IntelMQ is a solution for IT security teams for collecting and processing security feeds using a message queuing protocol.

Welcome to IntelMQ!

IntelMQ is a solution for IT security teams (CERTs & CSIRTs, SOCs, abuse departments, etc.) for collecting and processing security feeds (such as log files) using a message queuing protocol. It's a community driven initiative called IHAP (Incident Handling Automation Project) which was conceptually designed by European CERTs/CSIRTs during several InfoSec events. Its main goal is to give to incident responders an easy way to collect & process threat intelligence thus improving the incident handling processes of CERTs.

IntelMQ can be used for - automated incident handling - situational awareness - automated notifications - as data collector for other tools - etc.

IntelMQ's design was influenced by AbuseHelper, however it was re-written from scratch and aims at:

• Reducing the complexity of system administration
• Reducing the complexity of writing new bots for new data feeds
• Reducing the probability of events lost in all process with persistence functionality (even system crash)
• Use and improve the existing Data Harmonization Ontology
• Use JSON format for all messages
• Provide easy way to store data into Log Collectors like ElasticSearch, Splunk, databases (such as PostgreSQL)
• Provide easy way to create your own black-lists
• Provide easy communication with other systems via HTTP RESTful API

It follows the following basic meta-guidelines:

• Don't break simplicity - KISS
• Keep it open source - forever
• Strive for perfection while keeping a deadline
• Reduce complexity/avoid feature bloat
• Embrace unit testing
• Code readability: test with unexperienced programmers
• Communicate clearly

Getting Help

IntelMQ's documentation is available at intelmq.readthedocs.io.

For support questions please reach out on the the intelmq-users mailing list

IntelMQ Manager and more tools

Several pieces of software evolved around IntelMQ. For example, check out IntelMQ Manager which is a web based interface to easily manage an IntelMQ system.

More tools can be found in the IntelMQ Universe chapter in the documentation.

How to participate

IntelMQ is a community project depending on your contributions. Please consider sharing your work.

• Have a look at our Developers Guide for documentation.
• Subscribe to the Intelmq-dev Mailing list to get answers to your development questions:
• The Github issues lists all the open feature requests, bug reports and ideas.

Incident Handling Automation Project

• URL: http://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/cert/support/incident-handling-automation
• Mailing-list: [email protected]

Licence

This software is licensed under GNU Affero General Public License version 3

Funding

This project was partially funded by the CEF framework