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# MISP integration for Security Operations

# MISP integration for Security Operations {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Zurich
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* Updated July 31, 2025
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## Summary of MISP integration for Security Operations

The MISP integration for Security Operations in the ServiceNow AI Platform enables security teams to investigate and respond to security incidents more effectively by leveraging the Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP).
This integration facilitates sighting searches, observable enrichment, and event creation or updates directly within MISP, helping organizations detect targeted attacks faster, improve detection accuracy, and reduce false positives.
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## Key Features

* Connects to both private and public MISP instances for flexible threat intelligence sharing.
* Supports manual and automatic sighting searches of observables from case management.
* Allows reporting and updating of sightings in MISP, including marking observables as sightings, false positives, or expired.
* Enables enrichment of observables with MISP attribute and event information, including tags, galaxies, and comments.
* Supports both manual and automated creation and updating of MISP events from Security Incident Response (SIR) records.
* Automatically extracts and associates MITRE ATT\&CK™ information between MISP attributes and SIR incidents.

## Key Concepts

MISP acts as a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) and Threat Intelligence Management (TIM) system, facilitating real-time collection, correlation, and prioritization of threat data. Important elements include:

* **Events**: Contextually linked threat information.
* **Attributes**: Individual data points (indicators or supporting data), known as observables in other systems.
* **Objects** and **object references**: Structured data and relationships.
* **Sightings**: Specific occurrences of detected data points.
* **Tags** and **galaxies**: Labels and knowledge base items used to categorize and contextualize events or attributes.

## Benefits for Your Organization

Integrating MISP with Security Operations enables your security analysts to:

* Maintain situational awareness by consolidating and enriching threat intelligence within the ServiceNow AI Platform.
* Respond more quickly and accurately to threats with enriched context and automated workflows.
* Improve team efficiency by reducing manual research and operationalizing threat indicators directly in ServiceNow.

## Practical Use

Security teams can use this integration to enhance threat investigation and analysis by accessing MISP data within the ServiceNow AI Platform's Threat Intelligence and Security Incident Response modules. Administrators can configure MISP connectivity to perform sighting searches, observable enrichment, and event management seamlessly.  
With MISP integration for Security Operations, you can investigate security incidents with
sighting searches, observable enrichment, and create or update events in MISP.
Using MISP, you can investigate targeted attacks faster, improve the detection
ratio, and reduce the number of false positives in your environment.

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Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store version history release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/store-release-notes/sn-store-release-notes.html).{#misp-integration-for-security-operations__inline-send-to-store}

## MISP Overview {#misp-integration-for-security-operations__section_lfd_2dt_3qb}

MISP, which stands for Malware Information Sharing Platform, lets you exchange and share threat intelligence and Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) about the targeted malware and attacks within your community of trusted members. You can also share MISP information with private or open communities. By exchanging MISP information, you can investigate targeted attacks faster, improve the detection ratio, and reduce the number of false positives in your environment.

## Key features {#misp-integration-for-security-operations__section_m1m_znf_lqb}

This integration includes the things that you can do with the MISP key features:

* [Connect to private and public MISP instances](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/gEpKmmrbJYaK2AxzpVYhGw#install-and-configure-misp__table_kyc_qbg_pa1).
* [Support manual and
  automatic sighting search of observables](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/_6QN1o3BqthFpTefPWhIEA#sightings-searches-in-misp "You can perform sighting searches on observables in the MISP instance to determine how often certain types of attacks, such as phishing attacks or communications with a malicious IP or URL, occur in your network. Each occurrence is considered a sighting.").
* [Run
  sighting search from case management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/_6QN1o3BqthFpTefPWhIEA#perform-a-manual-sighting-search-in-misp "Select individual or multiple observables and perform a manual sighting search in the ServiceNow AI Platform MISP integration for Security Operations application to determine the prevalence of a threat over time.").
* [Report or update
  sightings to an attribute](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/_6QN1o3BqthFpTefPWhIEA#report-sightings-to-misp "Report threat data sightings so that you can react to false positives in your data and increase your awareness when a true positive threat occurs. You can also add an expiration date for a particular observable or attribute."):
  * Report an observable as a sighting (global)
  * Report an observable as a false positive (global)
  * Report an observable as expired
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* [Support manual and
  automatic observable enrichment](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/ytOQD_PodabWHfb2AjYtmA#observable-enrichment-in-misp "By enriching observables with additional information from various MISP sources during incident response investigations, you can contain identified threats."). Results include the MISP attribute and event information that is associated with the observables.
* Attribute enrichment in MISP which includes adding or updating [tags](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/ytOQD_PodabWHfb2AjYtmA#manage-tags-in-misp "Add or remove tags in MISP to classify events or attributes. You can use tagging globally to enable your classification or use tags locally when you don't want MISP events to be modified during your classification."), [galaxies](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/ytOQD_PodabWHfb2AjYtmA#manage-galaxies-in-misp "Add or remove galaxies in MISP so that you can classify these objects as a cluster in MISP and attach them to MISP events or attributes."), or [comments](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/ytOQD_PodabWHfb2AjYtmA#add-or-update-comments-in-misp "Add comments for the MISP attributes. The comments that you add are for informational purposes only and are not used for correlation of MISP data.").
* [Event creation in MISP from SIR](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/V8TVeSxMIy6u8o0SnuIWLQ#create-an-event-in-misp "Manually create events in MISP from the ServiceNow AI Platform to capture contextually related information represented as attributes and objects."): Supports manual and the automatic creation of events in MISP from SIR.
* Update a MISP event from SIR which includes adding or updating [tags](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/V8TVeSxMIy6u8o0SnuIWLQ#update-tags-to-misp-event "Add tags in ServiceNow AI Platform MISP to classify events or attributes. You can use tagging globally to enable your classification or use tags locally when you don't want MISP events to be modified during your classification."), [galaxies](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/V8TVeSxMIy6u8o0SnuIWLQ#update-galaxies-to-misp-event "Add or remove galaxies in ServiceNow AI Platform MISP so that you can classify these objects as a cluster in the MISP instance and attach them to MISP events or attributes."), or [attributes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/V8TVeSxMIy6u8o0SnuIWLQ#add-attribute-to-a-misp-event "Add attributes to an event, such as the type, category, and other contextual information about the event.").
* [Add security
  incident associated observables as attributes to a MISP
  event](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/V8TVeSxMIy6u8o0SnuIWLQ#add-attribute-to-a-misp-event "Add attributes to an event, such as the type, category, and other contextual information about the event.").
* [Auto-extract MITRE-ATT\&CK™ information from MISP
  attributes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/Fb0eZwYTThJQoP9ajKwIZQ "Roll up the MISP enrichment results manually if you haven't enabled the automatic rollup of MISP information.") and associate the information to SIR security incidents.
* [Automatically add SIR
  MITRE-ATT\&CK™ information as galaxies to a MISP
  event](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/DxgVshjVyhv_0x6RSXTHEA#review-the-misp-integration-settings__ul_pf2_41x_nqb).
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## Key concepts {#misp-integration-for-security-operations__section_m1s_xft_jqb}

This integration includes the following key concepts that you must know:

* MISP is a Threat intelligence platform (TIP). You use TIPs to collect, correlate, categorize, share, and integrate security threat data in real time to support the prioritization of actions and aid in attack prevention, detection, and response.
* MISP is a Threat Intelligence Management (TIM). You use TIMs to turn threat data into threat intelligence through context and to automatically prioritize threats by user-defined scoring and relevance.
* MISP Data layer
  * Events are encapsulations for contextually linked information.
  * Attributes are individual data points, which can be indicators or supporting data.
  * Objects are custom template attribute compositions.
  * Object references are the relationships between the other building blocks.
  * Sightings are time-specific occurrences of a detected data-point.
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* MISP Context layer
  * Tags are labels that are attached to events or attributes and may come from taxonomies.
  * Galaxy-clusters are knowledge base items that you can use to label events or attributes that come from galaxies.
  * Cluster relationships denote pre-defined relationships between clusters.
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* Indicators contain a pattern that you can use to detect suspicious or malicious cyber activity.
* Attributes in MISP can be network indicators (IP address), system indicators (a string in memory), or even bank account details. The attributes in MISP are known as observables in other SIEMs or formats such as STIX.
  * A type describes the attribute. For example, MD5 or a URL.
  * The attribute category describes an attribute. For example, a payload delivery.
  * An IDS tag determines if an attribute can be automatically used for detection.
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Note:  
For more information about MISP concepts, see the [MISP
Documentation website](https://www.misp-project.org/documentation/)

## How your organization can benefit from MISP integration for Security Operations {#misp-integration-for-security-operations__section_fzn_grt_jqb}

Security analysts must gain and maintain situational awareness of the threat landscape,
which means that they must manually consolidate and integrate an overwhelming amount of
threat data. Gathering, consolidating, and integrating this data takes valuable time, which
slows the detection and analysis of threats. MISP integration for Security Operations enables
analysts to detect more threats and respond quicker by integrating the MISP
security intelligence into an existing ServiceNow AI Platform instance.

By using the MISP integration for Security Operations, your organization can do the following
actions:

* Enable your security analysts to respond quickly and with the right context.
* Improve your security team's efficiency by automating the incident flows for detecting and containing threats.
* Reduce manual research time and enable security analysts to operationalize and curate indicators from within the ServiceNow AI Platform.
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## Learn about this integration {#misp-integration-for-security-operations__section_hb1_zft_jqb}

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| Document identifier | Document title |
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| MISP documentation website | [MISP Documentation website](https://www.misp-project.org/documentation/) |
| ServiceNow product documentation website | [ServiceNow Product Documentation website](https://www.servicenow.com/docs) |
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* **[MISP administration](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/NaX1WW35jxTseDjVZZw7Tw)**   
  You can set up MISP integration in the ServiceNow AI Platform to perform a sighting search, observable enrichment, and to create and update events in MISP.
* **[Using MISP to investigate and analyze threats](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/_lYxm1mPLtKQn~eCyXn7JA)**   
  You can use the MISP data across the ServiceNow AI Platform Threat Intelligence module and the ServiceNow AI Platform SIR module to investigate and analyze threats to your organization.