Taranis NG

Taranis NG is an OSINT gathering and analysis tool for CSIRT teams and organisations. It allows osint gathering, analysis and reporting; team-to-team collaboration; and contains a user portal for simple self asset management.

Taranis crawls various data sources such as web sites or tweets to gather unstructured news items. These are processed by analysts to create structured report items, which are used to create products such as PDF files, which are finally published.

Taranis supports team-to-team collaboration, and includes a light weight self service asset management which automatically links to the advisories that mention vulnerabilities in the software.

This is just a taste of its features:

• crawl the raw data using various collectors, perhaps located in different environments.
• process even those javascript-generated web pages with advanced data extraction techniques
• create different analyses with completely customizable report item types
• generate many different products with help of product templates
• easily publish to different channels
• time is money: collaborate with other teams by sharing interesting data. Each partnership can be configured and customized.
• split the work responsibilities any way you like, or have multiple teams process partially overlapping data using advanced role and permission system
• use wordlists for filtering and highlighting
• publish the self-service asset management portal to your constituency and allow them to set various notification profiles for those times when a vulnerability hits their product.

Hardware requirements

make sure to have at least 2 GB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 5 GB of disk storage available for running, 20 GB of disk storage if you want to build the project from scratch.

Getting started with Docker installation

Currently, the best way to deploy is via Docker. For Docker installation see Docker README.

When your Taranis NG instance is up and running, visit your instance by navigating to https://localhost:4443 using your web browser. The default credentials are user / user and admin / admin.

Connecting to collectors, presenters, and publishers

After installation, you have to connect the core application with collectors, presenters, and publishers. There is no limit to how many of these you have. The default docker installation deploys one instance of each for you automatically.

• Adding a collector node: no action needed. This is done automatically on startup if no collector nodes are defined.

• Adding a bot node: no action needed. This is done automatically on startup if no bot nodes are defined.

• Adding a presenter node: Log in as an admin, then navigate to Configuration -> Presenters nodes. Click Add new. Enter any name and description. For URL, enter http://presenters/ and for key, enter supersecret (or whatever password you chose during the installation). Click Save.

• Adding a publisher node: repeat the process at Configuration -> Publishers nodes. Fill in the fields. For URL, enter http://publishers/. Don't forget to set the password.

Learn more...

For instructions on configuring other components, refer to the How to guide.

You can view the architecture block diagram here.

Have a look at the Taranis NG - original requirements.pdf for detailed description of the features of the first release, its internal architecture, and general design goals of the project. Please note that the version available today already contain new features and changes, which are not documented in this PDF.

Node type capabilities

Type	Name	Description
Collector	web	crawl web sites
	email	read e-mails
	manual entry	enter news item manually
	rss	read RSS, Atom feeds
	scheduled tasks	populate feed automatically
	slack	read Slack messages
	twitter	receive tweets
Presenter	html	create HTML from template
	json	create a json file
	message	create a email message from template
	misp	create MISP event JSON
	pdf	create a PDF file from template
	text	create plain text from template
Publisher	email	send e-mail
	mastodon	create Mastodon tweet
	misp	create MISP event
	ftp, sftp	upload to FTP, SFTP
	twitter	create tweet
	wordpress	publish to WordPress
Bot	analyst	extract attributes from text by regular expressions
	grouping	group similar items in the news feed
	wordlist updater	update word lists used for matching

About

This project was inspired by Taranis3, a great tool made by NCSC-NL. Currently, NCSC-NL has a new tool for producing advisories, with a different approach to communicating with the world. There was no funding to maintain or further develop NCSC-NL's Taranis3.

It aims to become a next generation of this category of tools. The project was made in collaboration with a wide group of European CSIRT teams who are developers and users of Taranis3, and would not be possible without their valuable input especially during the requirements collection phase. The architecture and design of new Taranis NG is a collective brain child of this community.

Taranis NG was developed by SK-CERT with a help from wide CSIRT community, and is released under terms of the European Union Public Licence.

This project has been co-funded by European Regional Development Fund as part of Operational Programme Integrated Infrastructure (OPII).

Further development has been co-funded by “Connecting Europe Facility – Cybersecurity Digital Service Infrastructure Maintenance and Evolution of Core Service Platform Cooperation Mechanism for CSIRTs – MeliCERTes Facility” (SMART 2018/1024).

Further development is being co-funded by European Commission through the Connecting Europe Facility action entitled "Joint Threat Analysis Network", action number 2020-EU-IA-0260.