TheHive Project

One-liner: Open-source incident response and case management platform for SOC/CSIRT workflows.

🎯 What Is It?

TheHive provides case, task, and artifact management, analyst collaboration, and integrations with Cortex analyzers for enrichment and automation.

🤔 Why It Matters

• Centralises investigations and evidence.
• Streamlines triage, tasking, and reporting.
• Enables automation and enrichment at scale.

🔬 How It Works

Core Principles

1. Cases contain tasks, observables, and timelines.
2. Collaboration via comments, assignments, and templates.
3. Integration with Cortex for automated analysis/playbooks.

Technical Deep-Dive

• Artifacts: IOCs (hashes, URLs, IPs) with tags and TLP.
• Templates: standardise investigations by type (e.g., phishing, malware).
• APIs: integrate with SIEM/EDR and ticketing.

🛡️ Detection & Prevention

How to Prevent / Mitigate

• Use templates+workflows to reduce MTTR and improve consistency.

🎤 Interview Angles

• "How would you model a phishing case in TheHive?"

✅ Best Practices

• Define severity model and case fields.
• Enforce naming, tagging, and ownership conventions.

❌ Common Misconceptions

• It’s not a SIEM — it manages investigations, not raw logs.

🔗 Related Concepts

• Incident Response
• Security Information and Event Management system (SIEM)
• SOAR

📚 References

• https://thehive-project.org/