Cybersecurity Blue Team
Groups of individuals who identify security flaws in information technology systems.
Contents
Automation and Convention
Code libraries and bindings
File analysis framework written in Python that assists in evaluating a set of files by automatically running a suite of tools against them and aggregating the output.
Cloud platform security
Helps in visualizing AWS IAM and Organizations in a graph format with help of Neo4j.
Quickly evaluate IAM permissions in AWS via script and library capable of identifying risks in the configuration of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for an AWS account or an AWS organization.
Tool based on AWS-CLI commands for Amazon Web Services account security assessment and hardening.
Kubernetes
Query and validate several common security-related configuration settings of managed Kubernetes cluster objects and the workloads/resources running inside the cluster.
Utility that exposes the expiry of TLS certificates as Prometheus metrics.
Allows a cluster administrator to dump the current state of a running pod and all its containers so that security professionals can perform off-line forensic analysis.
Communications security (COMSEC)
DevSecOps
Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial/Subversion by encrypting them "at rest" using GnuPG.
Static analysis tool to probe for vulnerabilities introduced via application container (e.g., Docker) images.
Prevents you from committing passwords and other sensitive information to a git repository.
Editor of encrypted files that supports YAML, JSON, ENV, INI and binary formats and encrypts with AWS KMS, GCP KMS, Azure Key Vault, and PGP.
Simple and comprehensive vulnerability scanner for containers and other artifacts, suitable for use in continuous integration pipelines.
Dependency confusion
Policy enforcement
Honeypots
Host-based tools
Incident Response tools
IR management consoles
Evidence collection
Modular, automated forensic triage collection framework designed to access various forensic artifacts on macOS, parse them, and present them in formats viable for analysis.
Windows Batch script and a Unix Bash script to comprehensively collect host forensic data during incident response.
Network perimeter defenses
Phishing awareness and reporting
Certificate Transparency log monitor from SSLMate that alerts you when a SSL/TLS certificate is issued for one of your domains.
Tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks.
Outlook add-in used to help your users to report suspicious e-mails to security teams.
Framework that will assist with the detection and response to phishing attacks.
Platform allowing to create and manage (fake) phishing campaigns intended to train people in identifying suspicious mails.
Scans SPF and DMARC records for issues that could allow email spoofing.
Preparedness training and wargaming
Toolset to make a system look as if it was the victim of an APT attack.
Modular, menu-driven, cross-platform tool for building repeatable, time-delayed, distributed security events for Blue Team drills and sensor/alert mapping.
Automated information security preparedness tool to do adversarial simulation.
Security configurations
Security monitoring
Network Security Monitoring (NSM)
Augments your current security infrastructure to store and index network traffic in standard PCAP format, providing fast, indexed access.
Framework to aid analysts in the creation and execution of pynids-based decoders and detectors of APT tradecraft.
Open source framework for network traffic analysis that ingests Zeek logs and detects beaconing, DNS tunneling, and more.
Detects the presence of the Responder LLMNR/NBT-NS/MDNS poisoner on a network.
Catch spoofed NetBIOS Name Service (NBNS) responses and alert to an email or log file.
Full-packet-capture utility for buffering packets to disk for intrusion detection and incident response purposes.
General purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence.
Service and performance monitoring
Threat hunting
Suite of CIM/WMI-based tools enabling remote incident response and hunting operations across all versions of Windows.
Incident response framework focused on remote live forensics consisting of a Python agent installed on assets and Python-based server infrastructure enabling analysts to quickly triage attacks and perform analysis remotely.
All-in-one Free Software threat hunting stack based on Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kafka, and Kibana with various built-in integrations for analytics including Jupyter Notebook.
Automate the security incident handling process and facilitate the real-time activities of incident handlers.
PowerShell module designed to scan remote endpoints for indicators of compromise or survey them for more comprehensive information related to state of those systems.
PSHunt-like tool for analyzing remote Windows systems that also produces a self-contained HTML report of its findings.
Threat intelligence
Credential phish analysis and automation tool that can accept suspected phishing URLs directly or trigger on observed network traffic containing such a URL.
Multi-threaded threat intelligence gathering built with Python3 featuring simple text-based configuration and data storage for ease of use and data portability.
Provides IP network situational awareness of industrial control systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) by passively mapping, accounting for, and reporting on your ICS/SCADA network topology and endpoints.
Gather and combine multiple threat intelligence feed sources into one customizable, standardized CSV-based format.
Generic signature format for SIEM systems, offering an open signature format that allows you to describe relevant log events in a straightforward manner.
Threat intelligence dissemination layer to connect security tools through a distributed publish/subscribe message broker.
Extendable tool to extract and aggregate IOCs from threat feeds including Twitter, RSS feeds, or other sources.
Fingerprinting
Threat signature packages and collections
Indicators of Compromises (IOCs) derived from ESET's various investigations.
Collection of Snort and YARA rules to detect attacks carried out with FireEye's own Red Team tools, first released after FireEye disclosed a breach in December 2020.
Tor Onion service defenses
Transport-layer defenses
Overlay and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.
Scripts to build your own IPsec VPN server, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2.
Free Software private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood, made to be self-hosted.
macOS-based defenses
Windows-based defenses
Scan files or process memory for Cobalt Strike beacons and parse their configuration.
Detect both client-side rules and VBScript enabled forms used by the Ruler attack tool when attempting to compromise a Microsoft Exchange server.
Establishes a Windows RDP session from a list of hostnames and scans for accessibility tools backdoors, alerting if one is discovered.