The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today announced the public availability of Thorium, an open-source platform for malware and forensic analysts across the government, public, and private sectors.
Thorium was developed in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories as a scalable cybersecurity suite that automates many tasks involved in cyberattack investigations, and can schedule over 1,700 jobs per second and ingest over 10 million files per hour per permission group.
"Thorium enhances cybersecurity teams' capabilities by automating analysis workflows through seamless integration of commercial, open-source, and custom tools," CISA said on Thursday.
"It supports various mission functions, including software analysis, digital forensics, and incident response, allowing analysts to efficiently assess complex malware threats."
Security teams can use Thorium for automating and speeding up various file analysis workflows, including but not limited to:
Easily import and export tools to facilitate sharing across cyber defense teams,
Integrate command-line tools as Docker images, including open-source, commercial, and custom software,
Filter results using tags and full-text search,
Control access to submissions, tools, and results with strict group-based permissions,
Scale with Kubernetes and ScyllaDB to meet workload demands.
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