MISP integration for Security Operations

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
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    Summary of MISP integration for Security Operations

    The MISP integration for Security Operations enables security analysts to enhance incident investigations by leveraging threat intelligence from the Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP). This integration facilitates sighting searches, observable enrichment, and event creation or updating within MISP directly from the ServiceNow AI Platform. By integrating MISP data, organizations can accelerate targeted attack investigations, improve detection accuracy, and reduce false positives.

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    Key Features

    • Connect to both private and public MISP instances for threat intelligence sharing.
    • Support manual and automatic sighting searches of observables, including reporting sightings as global, false positives, or expired.
    • Enable observable enrichment with detailed attribute and event information, including the ability to add or update tags, galaxies, and comments.
    • Facilitate manual and automated creation and updating of MISP events from Security Incident Response (SIR), adding relevant observables and metadata.
    • Auto-extract and associate MITRE ATT&CK™ information from MISP attributes to SIR incidents, and add corresponding galaxies to MISP events.

    Key Concepts

    • Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP): MISP collects, correlates, categorizes, and shares threat data in real time to support attack prevention and response.
    • Threat Intelligence Management (TIM): MISP transforms threat data into actionable intelligence using scoring and relevance prioritization.
    • Data Layer: Includes events (linked contextual information), attributes (data points or indicators), objects (custom attribute templates), and sightings (time-specific detections).
    • Context Layer: Comprises tags, galaxy clusters (knowledge base labels), cluster relationships, and indicators used for detection.
    • Attributes in MISP correspond to observables in other security tools and include categories and types such as IP addresses, hashes, or URLs.

    Benefits for Your Organization

    • Enhances security analysts’ situational awareness by integrating and consolidating threat intelligence seamlessly into ServiceNow.
    • Accelerates threat detection and response by automating incident workflows and reducing manual research time.
    • Enables efficient operationalization and curation of indicators directly within the ServiceNow AI Platform, improving overall security team productivity.

    Using MISP with ServiceNow AI Platform

    Organizations can set up MISP integration within the ServiceNow AI Platform to perform key threat intelligence functions such as sighting searches, observable enrichment, and event creation or updates. This integration supports investigation and analysis of threats through the Threat Intelligence and Security Incident Response modules, providing enhanced context and actionable insights to security teams.

    With MISP integration for Security Operations, you can investigate security incidents with sighting searches, observable enrichment, and create or update events in MISP. Using MISP, you can investigate targeted attacks faster, improve the detection ratio, and reduce the number of false positives in your environment.

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    MISP Overview

    MISP, which stands for Malware Information Sharing Platform, lets you exchange and share threat intelligence and Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) about the targeted malware and attacks within your community of trusted members. You can also share MISP information with private or open communities. By exchanging MISP information, you can investigate targeted attacks faster, improve the detection ratio, and reduce the number of false positives in your environment.

    MISP and Security Operations

    See the following example to learn how the MISP information flows with Security Operations applications.

    Figure 1. MISP and Security Operations overview
    How MISP integrates with the Security Operations applications.

    Key features

    This integration includes the things that you can do with the MISP key features:

    Key concepts

    This integration includes the following key concepts that you must know:
    • MISP is a Threat intelligence platform (TIP). You use TIPs to collect, correlate, categorize, share, and integrate security threat data in real time to support the prioritization of actions and aid in attack prevention, detection, and response.
    • MISP is a Threat Intelligence Management (TIM). You use TIMs to turn threat data into threat intelligence through context and to automatically prioritize threats by user-defined scoring and relevance.
    • MISP Data layer
      • Events are encapsulations for contextually linked information.
      • Attributes are individual data points, which can be indicators or supporting data.
      • Objects are custom template attribute compositions.
      • Object references are the relationships between the other building blocks.
      • Sightings are time-specific occurrences of a detected data-point.
    • MISP Context layer
      • Tags are labels that are attached to events or attributes and may come from taxonomies.
      • Galaxy-clusters are knowledge base items that you can use to label events or attributes that come from galaxies.
      • Cluster relationships denote pre-defined relationships between clusters.
    • Indicators contain a pattern that you can use to detect suspicious or malicious cyber activity.
    • Attributes in MISP can be network indicators (IP address), system indicators (a string in memory), or even bank account details. The attributes in MISP are known as observables in other SIEMs or formats such as STIX.
      • A type describes the attribute. For example, MD5 or a URL.
      • The attribute category describes an attribute. For example, a payload delivery.
      • An IDS tag determines if an attribute can be automatically used for detection.
    Note:
    For more information about MISP concepts, see the MISP Documentation website

    How your organization can benefit from MISP integration for Security Operations

    Security analysts must gain and maintain situational awareness of the threat landscape, which means that they must manually consolidate and integrate an overwhelming amount of threat data. Gathering, consolidating, and integrating this data takes valuable time, which slows the detection and analysis of threats. MISP integration for Security Operations enables analysts to detect more threats and respond quicker by integrating the MISP security intelligence into an existing ServiceNow AI Platform instance.

    By using the MISP integration for Security Operations, your organization can do the following actions:

    • Enable your security analysts to respond quickly and with the right context.
    • Improve your security team's efficiency by automating the incident flows for detecting and containing threats.
    • Reduce manual research time and enable security analysts to operationalize and curate indicators from within the ServiceNow AI Platform.

    Learn about this integration

    Document identifier Document title
    MISP documentation website MISP Documentation website
    ServiceNow product documentation website ServiceNow Product Documentation website