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Alpine Security Threat Detection is a commercial threat hunting tool by Alpine Security. mkYARA is a free threat hunting tool. Compare features, ratings, integrations, and community reviews side by side to find the best threat hunting fit for your security stack.
CST VerdictBased on our analysis of NIST CSF 2.0 coverage, core features, company size fit, deployment model, here is our conclusion:
Mid-market and enterprise security teams with mature EDR deployments should pick Alpine Security Threat Detection when you need active hunting that actually correlates across your existing tools instead of running parallel to them. The service covers DE.AE and RS.AN functions at the NIST level, meaning they're built to find what your EDR misses and move quickly into forensics, not just flag alerts for your team to triage. Skip this if you're looking for a standalone platform or need heavy automation; this is a managed hunting service that assumes you already have security infrastructure in place and want humans who know how to exploit EDR data for detection.
Malware analysts and threat hunters who need to convert suspicious code samples into detection rules fast should start with mkYARA; it strips weeks of manual YARA rule writing down to minutes by automating the pattern extraction from executable binaries. The free pricing and 221 GitHub stars signal real adoption among security teams without budget for commercial rule generation platforms. Skip this if your team relies on pre-built rule sets from vendors; mkYARA assumes you're reverse-engineering unknown malware and need custom signatures, not managing an existing detection library.
Continuous threat hunting service based on TTP analysis and EDR exploitation
Automate the process of writing YARA rules based on executable code within malware.
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Alpine Security Threat Detection: Continuous threat hunting service based on TTP analysis and EDR exploitation. built by Alpine Security. headquartered in Andorra. Core capabilities include Continuous threat hunting service, TTP-based threat analysis, EDR exploitation and correlation..
mkYARA: Automate the process of writing YARA rules based on executable code within malware..
Both serve the Threat Hunting market but differ in approach, feature depth, and target audience.
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