Awesome Cybersecurity Blueteam Overview

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Awesome Cybersecurity Blue Team

A collection of awesome resources, tools, and other shiny things for cybersecurity blue teams.

Cybersecurity blue teams are groups of individuals who identify security flaws in information technology systems, verify the effectiveness of security measures, and monitor the systems to ensure that implemented defensive measures remain effective in the future. While not exclusive, this list is heavily biased towards Free Software projects and against proprietary products or corporate services. For offensive TTPs, please see awesome-pentest (⭐202).

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Automation
- Code libraries and bindings
- Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
Cloud platform security
Communications security (COMSEC)
DevSecOps
Honeypots
- Tarpits
Host-based tools
- Sandboxes
Identity and AuthN/AuthZ
Incident Response tools
- IR management consoles
- Evidence collection
Network perimeter defenses
- Firewall appliances or distributions
Operating System distributions
Phishing awareness and reporting
Preparedness training and wargaming
- Post-engagement analysis and reporting
Security configurations
Security monitoring
Threat intelligence
- Fingerprinting
- Threat signature packages and collections
Tor Onion service defenses
Transport-layer defenses
- Overlay and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
macOS-based defenses
Windows-based defenses
- Active Directory

Automation

Ansible Lockdown - Curated collection of information security themed Ansible roles that are both vetted and actively maintained.
Clevis (⭐739) - Plugable framework for automated decryption, often used as a Tang client.
DShell (⭐5.4k) - Extensible network forensic analysis framework written in Python that enables rapid development of plugins to support the dissection of network packet captures.
Dev-Sec.io - Server hardening framework providing Ansible, Chef, and Puppet implementations of various baseline security configurations.
peepdf - Scriptable PDF file analyzer.
PyREBox - Python-scriptable reverse engineering sandbox, based on QEMU.
Watchtower - Container-based solution for automating Docker container base image updates, providing an unattended upgrade experience.

Code libraries and bindings

MultiScanner (⭐600) - 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.
Posh-VirusTotal (⭐110) - PowerShell interface to VirusTotal.com APIs.
censys-python (⭐350) - Python wrapper to the Censys REST API.
libcrafter (⭐291) - High level C++ network packet sniffing and crafting library.
python-dshield (⭐24) - Pythonic interface to the Internet Storm Center/DShield API.
python-sandboxapi (⭐126) - Minimal, consistent Python API for building integrations with malware sandboxes.
python-stix2 (⭐327) - Python APIs for serializing and de-serializing Structured Threat Information eXpression (STIX) JSON content, plus higher-level APIs for common tasks.

Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)

Shuffle - Graphical generalized workflow (automation) builder for IT professionals and blue teamers.

Cloud platform security

Distributed monitoring

Cortex - Provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus.
Jaeger - Distributed tracing platform backend used for monitoring and troubleshooting microservices-based distributed systems.
OpenTelemetry - Observability framework for cloud-native software, comprising a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs for exporting application performance metrics to a tracing backend (formerly maintained by the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects).
Prometheus - Open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud.
Zipkin - Distributed tracing system backend that helps gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in service architectures.

Kubernetes

Service meshes

Communications security (COMSEC)

DevSecOps

Application or Binary Hardening

DynInst - Tools for binary instrumentation, analysis, and modification, useful for binary patching.
DynamoRIO - Runtime code manipulation system that supports code transformations on any part of a program, while it executes, implemented as a process-level virtual machine.
Egalito - Binary recompiler and instrumentation framework that can fully disassemble, transform, and regenerate ordinary Linux binaries designed for binary hardening and security research.
Valgrind - Instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools.

Compliance testing and reporting

Chef InSpec - Language for describing security and compliance rules, which become automated tests that can be run against IT infrastructures to discover and report on non-compliance.
OpenSCAP Base - Both a library and a command line tool (oscap) used to evaluate a system against SCAP baseline profiles to report on the security posture of the scanned system(s).

Dependency confusion

Fuzzing

Policy enforcement

AllStar (⭐1.1k) - GitHub App installed on organizations or repositories to set and enforce security policies.
Conftest - Utility to help you write tests against structured configuration data.
Open Policy Agent (OPA) - Unified toolset and framework for policy across the cloud native stack.
Regula - Checks infrastructure as code templates (Terraform, CloudFormation, K8s manifests) for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes security and compliance using Open Policy Agent/Rego.
Tang (⭐388) - Server for binding data to network presence; provides data to clients only when they are on a certain (secured) network.

Supply chain security

Honeypots

Tarpits

Endlessh (⭐6.4k) - SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner.
LaBrea - Program that answers ARP requests for unused IP space, creating the appearance of fake machines that answer further requests very slowly in order to slow down scanners, worms, etcetera.

Host-based tools

Artillery (⭐972) - Combination honeypot, filesystem monitor, and alerting system designed to protect Linux and Windows operating systems.
Crowd Inspect - Free tool for Windows systems aimed to alert you to the presence of malware that may be communicating over the network.
Fail2ban - Intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacks.
Open Source HIDS SECurity (OSSEC) - Fully open source and free, feature-rich, Host-based Instrusion Detection System (HIDS).
Rootkit Hunter (rkhunter) - POSIX-compliant Bash script that scans a host for various signs of malware.
Shufflecake - Plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux.
USB Keystroke Injection Protection (⭐468) - Daemon for blocking USB keystroke injection devices on Linux systems.
chkrootkit - Locally checks for signs of a rootkit on GNU/Linux systems.

Sandboxes

Bubblewrap (⭐3.4k) - Sandboxing tool for use by unprivileged Linux users capable of restricting access to parts of the operating system or user data.
Dangerzone - Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.
Firejail - SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.

Identity and AuthN/AuthZ

Gluu Server - Central authentication and authorization for Web and mobile applications with a Free and Open Source Software cloud-native community distribution.

Incident Response tools

LogonTracer (⭐2.5k) - Investigate malicious Windows logon by visualizing and analyzing Windows event log.
Volatility - Advanced memory forensics framework.
aws_ir (⭐335) - Automates your incident response with zero security preparedness assumptions.

IR management consoles

CIRTKit (⭐139) - Scriptable Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) toolkit built on Viper.
Fast Incident Response (FIR) (⭐1.6k) - Cybersecurity incident management platform allowing for easy creation, tracking, and reporting of cybersecurity incidents.
Rekall - Advanced forensic and incident response framework.
TheHive - Scalable, free Security Incident Response Platform designed to make life easier for SOCs, CSIRTs, and CERTs, featuring tight integration with MISP.
threat_note (⭐422) - Web application built by Defense Point Security to allow security researchers the ability to add and retrieve indicators related to their research.

Evidence collection

AutoMacTC (⭐487) - Modular, automated forensic triage collection framework designed to access various forensic artifacts on macOS, parse them, and present them in formats viable for analysis.
OSXAuditor (⭐3.1k) - Free macOS computer forensics tool.
OSXCollector (⭐1.9k) - Forensic evidence collection & analysis toolkit for macOS.
ir-rescue (⭐438) - Windows Batch script and a Unix Bash script to comprehensively collect host forensic data during incident response.
Margarita Shotgun (⭐230) - Command line utility (that works with or without Amazon EC2 instances) to parallelize remote memory acquisition.
Untitled Goose Tool (⭐844) - Assists incident response teams by exporting cloud artifacts from Azure/AzureAD/M365 environments in order to run a full investigation despite lacking in logs ingested by a SIEM.

Network perimeter defenses

Gatekeeper (⭐1.1k) - First open source Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection system.
fwknop - Protects ports via Single Packet Authorization in your firewall.
ssh-audit (⭐2.8k) - Simple tool that makes quick recommendations for improving an SSH server's security posture.

Firewall appliances or distributions

IPFire - Hardened GNU/Linux based router and firewall distribution forked from IPCop.
OPNsense - Hardened FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform forked from pfSense.
pfSense - FreeBSD firewall and router distribution forked from m0n0wall.

Operating System distributions

Computer Aided Investigative Environment (CAINE) - Italian GNU/Linux live distribution that pre-packages numerous digital forensics and evidence collection tools.
Security Onion - Free and open source GNU/Linux distribution for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management.
Qubes OS - Desktop environment built atop the Xen hypervisor project that runs each end-user program in its own virtual machine intended to provide strict security controls to constrain the reach of any successful malware exploit.

Phishing awareness and reporting

CertSpotter (⭐842) - Certificate Transparency log monitor from SSLMate that alerts you when a SSL/TLS certificate is issued for one of your domains.
Gophish - Powerful, open-source phishing framework that makes it easy to test your organization's exposure to phishing.
King Phisher (⭐2.1k) - Tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks.
NotifySecurity (⭐125) - Outlook add-in used to help your users to report suspicious e-mails to security teams.
Phishing Intelligence Engine (PIE) (⭐177) - Framework that will assist with the detection and response to phishing attacks.
Swordphish (⭐216) - Platform allowing to create and manage (fake) phishing campaigns intended to train people in identifying suspicious mails.
mailspoof (⭐102) - Scans SPF and DMARC records for issues that could allow email spoofing.
phishing_catcher (⭐1.6k) - Configurable script to watch for issuances of suspicious TLS certificates by domain name in the Certificate Transparency Log (CTL) using the CertStream service.

Preparedness training and wargaming

(Also known as adversary emulation, threat simulation, or similar.)

APTSimulator (⭐2.3k) - Toolset to make a system look as if it was the victim of an APT attack.
Atomic Red Team - Library of simple, automatable tests to execute for testing security controls.
BadBlood - Fills a test (non-production) Windows Domain with data that enables security analysts and engineers to practice using tools to gain an understanding and prescribe to securing Active Directory.
Caldera - Scalable, automated, and extensible adversary emulation platform developed by MITRE.
Drool - Replay DNS traffic from packet capture files and send it to a specified server, such as for simulating DDoS attacks on the DNS and measuring normal DNS querying.
DumpsterFire (⭐941) - Modular, menu-driven, cross-platform tool for building repeatable, time-delayed, distributed security events for Blue Team drills and sensor/alert mapping.
Infection Monkey - Open-source breach and attack simulation (BAS) platform that helps you validate existing controls and identify how attackers might exploit your current network security gaps.
Metta (⭐1k) - Automated information security preparedness tool to do adversarial simulation.
Network Flight Simulator (flightsim) (⭐1.1k) - Utility to generate malicious network traffic and help security teams evaluate security controls and audit their network visibility.
RedHunt OS (⭐1.2k) - Ubuntu-based Open Virtual Appliance (.ova) preconfigured with several threat emulation tools as well as a defender's toolkit.
Stratus Red Team - Emulate offensive attack techniques in a granular and self-contained manner against a cloud environment; think "Atomic Red Team™ for the cloud."
tcpreplay - Suite of free Open Source utilities for editing and replaying previously captured network traffic originally designed to replay malicious traffic patterns to Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems.

Post-engagement analysis and reporting

RedEye - Analytic tool to assist both Red and Blue teams with visualizing and reporting command and control activities, replay and demonstrate attack paths, and more clearly communicate remediation recommendations to stakeholders.

Security configurations

(Also known as secure-by-default baselines and implemented best practices.)

Bunkerized-nginx (⭐3.2k) - Docker image of an NginX configuration and scripts implementing many defensive techniques for Web sites.

Security monitoring

Crossfeed - Continuously enumerates and monitors an organization’s public-facing attack surface in order to discover assets and flag potential security flaws.
Starbase (⭐307) - Collects assets and relationships from services and systems into an intuitive graph view to offer graph-based security analysis for everyone.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Wazuh - Open source, multiplatform agent-based security monitoring based on a fork of OSSEC HIDS.

Network Security Monitoring (NSM)

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

AlienVault OSSIM - Single-server open source SIEM platform featuring asset discovery, asset inventorying, behavioral monitoring, and event correlation, driven by AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX).
Prelude SIEM OSS - Open source, agentless SIEM with a long history and several commercial variants featuring security event collection, normalization, and alerting from arbitrary log input and numerous popular monitoring tools.

Service and performance monitoring

Icinga - Modular redesign of Nagios with pluggable user interfaces and an expanded set of data connectors, collectors, and reporting tools.
Locust - Open source load testing tool in which you can define user behaviour with Python code and swarm your system with millions of simultaneous users.
Nagios - Popular network and service monitoring solution and reporting platform.
OpenNMS - Free and feature-rich networking monitoring system supporting multiple configurations, a variety of alerting mechanisms (email, XMPP, SMS), and numerous data collection methods (SNMP, HTTP, JDBC, etc).
osquery (⭐21k) - Operating system instrumentation framework for macOS, Windows, and Linux, exposing the OS as a high-performance relational database that can be queried with a SQL-like syntax.
Zabbix - Mature, enterprise-level platform to monitor large-scale IT environments.

Threat hunting

(Also known as hunt teaming and threat detection.)

CimSweep (⭐629) - Suite of CIM/WMI-based tools enabling remote incident response and hunting operations across all versions of Windows.
DeepBlueCLI (⭐1.9k) - PowerShell module for hunt teaming via Windows Event logs.
GRR Rapid Response (⭐4.5k) - 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.
Hunting ELK (HELK) (⭐3.6k) - 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.
Logging Made Easy (LME) - Free and open logging and protective monitoring solution serving.
MozDef (⭐2.2k) - Automate the security incident handling process and facilitate the real-time activities of incident handlers.
PSHunt (⭐267) - PowerShell module designed to scan remote endpoints for indicators of compromise or survey them for more comprehensive information related to state of those systems.
PSRecon (⭐467) - PSHunt-like tool for analyzing remote Windows systems that also produces a self-contained HTML report of its findings.
PowerForensics (⭐1.3k) - All in one PowerShell-based platform to perform live hard disk forensic analysis.
Redline - Freeware endpoint auditing and analysis tool that provides host-based investigative capabilities, offered by FireEye, Inc.
rastrea2r (⭐222) - Multi-platform tool for triaging suspected IOCs on many endpoints simultaneously and that integrates with antivirus consoles.

Threat intelligence

AttackerKB - Free and public crowdsourced vulnerability assessment platform to help prioritize high-risk patch application and combat vulnerability fatigue.
DATA (⭐94) - Credential phish analysis and automation tool that can accept suspected phishing URLs directly or trigger on observed network traffic containing such a URL.
Forager (⭐166) - Multi-threaded threat intelligence gathering built with Python3 featuring simple text-based configuration and data storage for ease of use and data portability.
GRASSMARLIN (⭐861) - 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.
MLSec Combine (⭐643) - Gather and combine multiple threat intelligence feed sources into one customizable, standardized CSV-based format.
Malware Information Sharing Platform and Threat Sharing (MISP) - Open source software solution for collecting, storing, distributing and sharing cyber security indicators.
Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) - Vulnerability database and triage infrastructure for open source projects aimed at helping both open source maintainers and consumers of open source.
Sigma (⭐7k) - Generic signature format for SIEM systems, offering an open signature format that allows you to describe relevant log events in a straightforward manner.
Threat Bus (⭐247) - Threat intelligence dissemination layer to connect security tools through a distributed publish/subscribe message broker.
ThreatIngestor (⭐733) - Extendable tool to extract and aggregate IOCs from threat feeds including Twitter, RSS feeds, or other sources.
Unfetter - Identifies defensive gaps in security posture by leveraging Mitre's ATT&CK framework.
Viper (⭐1.5k) - Binary analysis and management framework enabling easy organization of malware and exploit samples.
YARA (⭐7.2k) - Tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples, described as "the pattern matching swiss army knife" for file patterns and signatures.

Fingerprinting

HASSH (⭐512) - Network fingerprinting standard which can be used to identify specific client and server SSH implementations.
JA3 - Extracts SSL/TLS handshake settings for fingerprinting and communicating about a given TLS implementation.

Threat signature packages and collections

ESET's Malware IoCs (⭐1.4k) - Indicators of Compromises (IOCs) derived from ESET's various investigations.
FireEye's Red Team Tool Countermeasures (⭐2.6k) - 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.
FireEye's Sunburst Countermeasures (⭐558) - Collection of IoC in various languages for detecting backdoored SolarWinds Orion NMS activities and related vulnerabilities.
YARA Rules (⭐3.8k) - Project covering the need for IT security researchers to have a single repository where different Yara signatures are compiled, classified and kept as up to date as possible.

Tor Onion service defenses

Transport-layer defenses

Certbot - Free tool to automate the issuance and renewal of TLS certificates from the LetsEncrypt Root CA with plugins that configure various Web and e-mail server software.
MITMEngine (⭐762) - Golang library for server-side detection of TLS interception events.
Tor - Censorship circumvention and anonymizing overlay network providing distributed, cryptographically verified name services (.onion domains) to enhance publisher privacy and service availability.

Overlay and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Firezone - Self-hosted VPN server built on WireGuard that supports MFA and SSO.
Headscale (⭐16k) - Open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.
IPsec VPN Server Auto Setup Scripts (⭐23k) - Scripts to build your own IPsec VPN server, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2.
Innernet (⭐4.6k) - Free Software private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood, made to be self-hosted.
Nebula (⭐13k) - Completely open source and self-hosted, scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity, and security, inspired by tinc.
OpenVPN - Longstanding Free Software traditional SSL/TLS-based virtual private network.
OpenZITI - Open source initiative focused on bringing Zero Trust to any application via an overlay network, tunelling applications, and numerous SDKs.
Tailscale - Managed freemium mesh VPN service built on top of WireGuard.
WireGuard - Extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography.
tinc - Free Software mesh VPN implemented entirely in userspace that supports expandable network space, bridged ethernet segments, and more.

macOS-based defenses

BlockBlock - Monitors common persistence locations and alerts whenever a persistent component is added, which helps to detect and prevent malware installation.
LuLu - Free macOS firewall.
Santa (⭐4.2k) - Keep track of binaries that are naughty or nice in an allow/deny-listing system for macOS.
Stronghold (⭐1k) - Easily configure macOS security settings from the terminal.
macOS Fortress (⭐400) - Automated configuration of kernel-level, OS-level, and client-level security features including privatizing proxying and anti-virus scanning for macOS.

Windows-based defenses

CobaltStrikeScan (⭐832) - Scan files or process memory for Cobalt Strike beacons and parse their configuration.
HardenTools (⭐2.7k) - Utility that disables a number of risky Windows features.
NotRuler (⭐89) - Detect both client-side rules and VBScript enabled forms used by the Ruler (⭐2k) attack tool when attempting to compromise a Microsoft Exchange server.
Sandboxie - Free and open source general purpose Windows application sandboxing utility.
Sigcheck - Audit a Windows host's root certificate store against Microsoft's Certificate Trust List (CTL).
Sticky Keys Slayer (⭐319) - Establishes a Windows RDP session from a list of hostnames and scans for accessibility tools backdoors, alerting if one is discovered.
Windows Secure Host Baseline (⭐1.5k) - Group Policy objects, compliance checks, and configuration tools that provide an automated and flexible approach for securely deploying and maintaining the latest releases of Windows 10.
WMI Monitor (⭐120) - Log newly created WMI consumers and processes to the Windows Application event log.

Active Directory

Active Directory Control Paths (⭐627) - Visualize and graph Active Directory permission configs ("control relations") to audit questions such as "Who can read the CEO's email?" and similar.
PingCastle - Active Directory vulnerability detection and reporting tool.
PlumHound (⭐931) - More effectively use BloodHoundAD in continual security life-cycles by utilizing its pathfinding engine to identify Active Directory security vulnerabilities.

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