Eclectic IQ. The Intelligent tool for all your desired Intel!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The current environment that I am working in has multiple OSINT and premium Threat Intels subscribed. EclecticIQ, in addition to its own superb intel, is integrated with the rest of the intel via API calling and serves as a common ingestion point for all the Intelligence. This feed from the EIQ is then consumed by SIEM and SOAR.
Pros
- Effective correlation of IOCs
- Averaging out the Confidence Score based on different intel sources.
- Serves as an excellent liaison points between the Intels and SIEM/SOAR stack.
Cons
- Misses on a global search bar which can directly gives out the result like VirusTotal.
- The GUI could be more friendlier. Too many filters and graphs may overwhlem the user sometimes.
- The ElasticSearch(searching for IOC in the in-house EIQ database) is a little slow compared to its counterparts.
Most Important Features
- Integration with SIEM and SOAR for feed ingestion.
- Correlation of different Intel data and setting the priority based on Confidence Score.
- Having a DB to store the IOC for historical reference purpose.
Return on Investment
- Positive: Effective usage of all the premium Intels in a uniform fashion. No need to log in to each tool time and again.
- Positive: SOC Analysts spends lesser time on the internet and the analysis for the IOCs with graphical format is fulfilled by EclecticIQ.
- Negative: Higher costs over the resource utilization in the initial setup.
Alternatives Considered
Kaspersky Threat Management and Defense, Recorded Future and IBM X-Force
Other Software Used
Rapid7 InsightVM (Nexpose), Recorded Future, FortiAnalyzer
