Security Operations Tools
Security operations tools for SIEM, detection and response, incident response, forensics, offensive testing, and SOC management.
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A combination of honeypot, monitoring tool, and alerting system for detecting insecure configurations.
QIRA is a competitor to strace and gdb with MIT license, supporting Ubuntu and Docker for wider compatibility.
A collection of vulnerable ARM binaries designed for educational exploit development and vulnerability research practice across different architectures and exploitation techniques.
yextend extends Yara's functionality by automatically handling archived and compressed content inflation, enabling pattern matching on files buried within multiple layers of archives.
A repository of sample security playbooks with ARM templates for Microsoft Sentinel that enable automated security orchestration and response capabilities.
Unified repository for Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender containing security content, detections, queries, playbooks, and resources to secure environments and hunt for threats.
A community repository of workflow templates for the Ayehu NG platform that enables automated IT and business process execution.
A contribution guide that provides guidelines and instructions for developers to contribute custom activities to the Ayehu IT automation platform through GitHub pull requests.
A community-driven repository and development framework for creating custom automation activities within the Ayehu NG IT orchestration platform.
A sandbox for quickly sandboxing known or unknown families of Android Malware
Scan files or process memory for Cobalt Strike beacons and parse their configuration.
Generate comprehensive reports about Windows systems with detailed system, security, networking, and USB information.
Open source application for retrieving passwords stored on a local computer with support for various software and platforms.
Intercepts and examines mobile app connections by stripping SSL/TLS layer.
A collaborative malware analysis framework with various features for automated analysis tasks.
A tool for analyzing and visualizing control relationships and privilege escalation paths within Active Directory environments using graph-based representations.
Automated collection tool for incident response triage in Windows systems.
Simple C++ Encryption and Steganography tool for hiding files inside images using LSB encoding.
Extract local data storage of an Android application in one click.
LiME is a Linux Memory Extractor tool for acquiring volatile memory from Linux and Linux-based devices, including Android, with features like full memory captures and minimal process footprint.
A program to manage yara ruleset in a database with support for different databases and configuration options.
Security Operations Specializations
2094 tools across 15 specializations · 1375 free, 719 commercial
Digital Forensics
Digital forensics tools whose primary job is to collect, preserve, and analyze evidence after the fact.
Incident Response
Incident response tools and retainers whose primary job is to orchestrate live response to an active security incident.
Malware Analysis
Malware analysis tools whose primary job is to reverse-engineer, detonate, and classify malware samples.
Security Operations Tools FAQ
Common questions about Security Operations tools, selection guides, pricing, and comparisons.
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) collects, correlates, and analyzes security logs from across your environment to detect threats. SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) automates incident response workflows and playbooks. XDR (Extended Detection and Response) integrates detection across endpoints, network, cloud, and email in a unified platform. Many organizations use SIEM for compliance and broad visibility, XDR for detection, and SOAR for response automation.
It depends on your requirements. XDR provides superior detection by correlating telemetry across multiple security layers. However, SIEM is still needed if you have compliance requirements for long-term log retention, need to ingest logs from non-security sources (applications, databases), or want custom correlation rules. Many organizations are consolidating from SIEM to XDR for detection while keeping SIEM for compliance and log management.
MDR (Managed Detection and Response) provides 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response delivered as a managed service. Choose MDR if: your team is too small to staff a 24/7 SOC (typically requires 8-12 analysts), you lack threat hunting expertise, or you need rapid security operations maturity. Build in-house when you need full control over detection logic, have unique threat models, or have the budget for a dedicated security operations team.
DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response) tools help investigate security incidents by collecting and analyzing evidence: disk images, memory dumps, network captures, and log artifacts. You need DFIR capabilities when responding to confirmed breaches, conducting malware analysis, supporting legal proceedings, or performing proactive threat hunting. Many organizations outsource DFIR to specialized incident response firms.
