Thinkst Canary Log Monitoring

Integration Overview

Thinkst Canary is a Canary honeypot solution with a focus on detecting lateral movement. Thinkst Canary allows you to deploy Canaries in your environment which act as valuable and attractive targets. These Canaries then fire an alert when accessed. Panther can collect, normalize, and monitor Canary alerts to help you identify suspicious activity in real-time. Your normalized data is retained for future security investigations in a data lake powered by Snowflake.

Use Cases for Thinkst Canary Logs

Common SIEM use cases for these logs include:

  • Correlating Canary alerts with other security events to enable centralized threat detection
  • Identifying disruptions in communication with your canaries

Onboarding Thinkst Canary Logs in Panther

Panther’s integration for Thinkst Canary is easy to configure, allowing you to onboard your log data in just a few minutes. Canary logs are streamed to Panther through an HTTP webhook.

For more details on onboarding Thinkst Canary logs or for supported log schema, you can view our Thinkst Canary documentation here.

Normalizing & Analyzing Canary Events

As Panther ingests events, they are parsed, normalized, and stored in a Snowflake security data lake. This empowers security teams to craft detections, identify anomalies, and conduct investigations on your data in the context of days, weeks, or months.

Panther’s managed schema will apply normalization fields to your Canary events, standardizing attribute names and empowering users to correlate and investigate data across all log types. For more on searching log data in Panther, check out our documentation on Investigations & Search.

Detection as Code

With Panther, your team won’t be confined to restrictive detection rules as seen in many SIEM platforms. Panther is built with detection-as-code principles, allowing users to use Python to write expressive detections and integrate external systems like version control and CI/CD pipelines into your detection engineering workflows. This results in powerful, flexible, and reusable scripting of detections for your security team. In addition, you can create correlation rules to link multiple events together, like IDP logs and Thinkst Canary logs, for highly targeted alerts.

A number of pre-built detections for Thinkst Canary are available by default in Panther, offering users immediate value for monitoring common IoCs and threats. You can explore our built-in detection coverage for Thinkst Canary logs here.

Configuring Alerts

Panther fires alerts when your detection rules or policies are triggered and integrates with a variety of alert destinations to allow for easy access and management of any Canary alerts. Alerts can also be forwarded to alert context or SOAR platforms for more remediation options.

Alerts are categorized in five different severity levels: Info, Low, Medium, High, and Critical. Security teams have the options to dynamically assign severity based on specific log event attributes.

Customer Support

If you have any questions about configuring Thinkst Canary with Panther, we’re here to help. All customers have access to our technical support team via a dedicated Slack channel, email, or in-app messenger.

You can check out our documentation on configuring Thinkst Canary here, or customers can sign up for the Panther Community to share best practices or custom detections for Thinkst Canary.

The Ideal SIEM Integration for Thinkst Canary

With Panther, security teams don’t have to struggle with restrictive detection logic, waste time and resources on operational overhead, or pay skyrocketing costs to keep up with the growth of cloud data. Panther was founded by a team of veteran security practitioners who struggled with legacy SIEM challenges firsthand and built an intuitive, cloud-native platform to solve them.

Panther is a cloud-native SIEM built for security operations at scale, offering flexible detection-as-code, intuitive security workflows, and actionable real-time alerts to keep up with the needs of today’s security teams. For a powerful, flexible, and scalable SIEM solution, request a demo today.

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