Top 8 threat-detection Open-Source Projects

awesome-threat-detection

5 3,353 2.6

✨ A curated list of awesome threat detection and hunting resources 🕵️‍♂️
stratus-red-team

8 1,621 8.7 Go

:cloud: :zap: Granular, Actionable Adversary Emulation for the Cloud
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com featured

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
akto

2 836 9.9 Java

Proactive, Open source API security → API discovery, Testing in CI/CD, Test Library with 150+ Tests, Add custom tests, Sensitive data exposure

Project mention: Open source vulnerability scanner | /r/cybersecurity | 2023-12-05

Qualys is good. For open source vulnerability scanner for APIs - you can also try https://github.com/akto-api-security/akto

Watcher

3 800 2.4 Python

Watcher - Open Source Cybersecurity Threat Hunting Platform. Developed with Django & React JS. (by Felix83000)
awesome-detection-engineering

1 554 6.5

Detection Engineering is a tactical function of a cybersecurity defense program that involves the design, implementation, and operation of detective controls with the goal of proactively identifying malicious or unauthorized activity before it negatively impacts an individual or an organization.

Project mention: Detection Engineering - Responsibilities / Career Growth / Compensation | /r/SecurityCareerAdvice | 2023-06-14

Apologies if unclear, I meant the path towards Detection Engineering! I've immersed myself into awesome-detection-engineering and find different perspectives/gems through newsletters such as 'Detection Engineering' by Zack Allen.

aws-security-workshops

7 426 0.0 Jupyter Notebook

A collection of the latest AWS Security workshops
threatest

1 306 6.5 Go

Threatest is a CLI and Go framework for end-to-end testing threat detection rules.
SaaSHub

www.saashub.com featured

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Crawlector

2 123 6.4

Crawlector is a threat hunting framework designed for scanning websites for malicious objects.

Project mention: Crawlector Version 2.0 has been released. This is a milestone release. | /r/netsec | 2023-09-21

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

threat-detection related posts

Crawlector Version 2.0 has been released. This is a milestone release.

1 project | /r/netsec | 21 Sep 2023
Beginners: How to get the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification

1 project | dev.to | 22 Dec 2022
The Testing->Learning REPL and AWS Exams

2 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2022
Hands on training / exercises for AWS security?

1 project | /r/aws | 5 Jun 2022
Practice AWS Hands-on Labs

1 project | /r/aws | 2 Nov 2021
Cloud CTE

1 project | /r/AskNetsec | 2 Nov 2021
Hosting Your Own Gameday

3 projects | /r/aws | 6 Sep 2021
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Index

What are some of the best open-source threat-detection projects? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	awesome-threat-detection	3,353
2	stratus-red-team	1,621
3	akto	836
4	Watcher	800
5	awesome-detection-engineering	554
6	aws-security-workshops	426
7	threatest	306
8	Crawlector	123