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ACT | Semi-Automated Cyber Threat Intelligence

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ACT enables advanced threat enrichment, threat analysis, visualisation, process automation, lossless information sharing and powerful graph analysis. Its modular design and APIs facilitate implementing new workers for enrichment, analysis, information sharing, and countermeasures.

Included in the platform is Scio, a component that ingests human-readable reports, like threat advisories and blog posts, and uses natural language processing and pattern matching to extract structured threat information to import to the platform. Our Github repositories also include support for information import and data enrichment from MISP, MITRE ATT&CK, VirusTotal, PassiveDNS, ShadowServer and Splunk, with more on the way.

So why build yet another threat intelligence platform?

In 2014 we set out to find a platform on the market to meet the needs of our SOC and threat intelligence team. Our requirements were not particularly unique: we needed a platform that would help us to collect and organise our knowledge of threats, facilitate analysis and sharing, and make it easy to retrieve that knowledge when needed. We spent too much time on manual processes, copy-pasting information between different systems. Much of our knowledge was in an unstructured form, like threat reports, that made it difficult and time consuming to figure out if we had relevant knowledge that could help us decide how to handle security alerts and security incidents.

Sound familiar? After evaluating the existing platforms, we concluded they could not easily be adapted to meet our requirements. In speaking with our partners, customers and the security community, we saw we were not alone and decided to research and develop a new platform: ACT.

This session will focus on threat analysis using the GUI to demonstrate how ACT can help SOC analysts, incident responders and threat analysts/hunters/researchers.

ACT Virtual Appliance

This image is a virtual appliance that can be installed in virtual box or vmware. The image contains a "clean" installation, with only the ACT data model. When booting the image it will start to bootstrap the image with feeds, workers, enrichment and optionally a repository of reports.

The import of data should start immediately after booting the image, but it could take several days to import and enrich everything.

Image content

The image contains:

• Centos
• Apache Cassandra
• Elasticsearch
• Apache NiFI
• ACT Platform
• ACT Workers
• ACT SCIO
• ACT SCIO API
• ACT Datamodel
• ACT Frontend

Requirements

The minimum requirements for this image are:

• Virtual Box 6, with NAT network
• 10GB RAM
• 4 CPUs
• 60 GB disk

It should also work to install the virtual appliance on vmware, but the port forwarding is not automatically set up after installation, so you will need configure that yourself after importing the image.

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