COSMOS — CYBER THREAT DASHBOARD
by Tobin M. Albanese
PORTFOLIO — SPOTLIGHT Sat Mar 01 2025
Purpose. COSMOS consolidates heterogeneous cyber threat data—commercial/open feeds, dark-web chatter, vulnerability disclosures, malware sandboxes, and internal telemetry—into a single operational pane.
By eliminating swivel-chair analysis across tabs and tools, analysts can triage faster, correlate indicators of compromise (IOCs) with real assets, and move from signal to decision with full context.
COSMOS is designed for 24/7 situational awareness: it ingests continuously, normalizes formats, enriches artifacts, and preserves provenance so every alert can be traced back to its source.
Features. The platform performs multi-feed ingestion with per-source parsing and enrichment, unifies IOCs (hashes, IPs, domains, URLs) into entity-centric views, and monitors the dark web for leaks, targeting chatter, and sale of stolen data.
Vulnerability tracking ties CVEs to your asset inventory and patch posture, prioritizing exploit-in-the-wild and KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Analyst playbooks provide step-by-step checklists, notes, and evidence capture, turning tribal knowledge into repeatable, auditable response workflows.
Analytics. COSMOS builds behavioral baselines from historical telemetry, then scores anomalies across users, hosts, and network segments.
TTP clustering groups related events by ATT&CK techniques, surfacing campaigns rather than isolated alerts.
Every analytic view is drillable: pivot from a cluster to raw artifacts, sandbox detonation reports, PCAP slices, and original feed entries.
Confidence and severity are explained with contributing features so analysts understand why something is prioritized—not just that it is.
Integrations. COSMOS connects to SIEM/SOAR platforms via webhooks and REST, opens tickets in incident systems with pre-filled context, and notifies channels (email/ChatOps) with deduplicated alerts.
Role-based access control (RBAC) and workspace isolation support multi-team and multi-tenant operations, while API keys and signed export bundles enable safe sharing with partners.
A plugin model allows new feed connectors, enrichment services, and automations to be added without redeploying the core.
Outcome. Teams move from feeds to findings quickly, with end-to-end traceability.
COSMOS cuts time-to-triage by centralizing evidence, reduces false positives through correlation and context, and captures institutional knowledge in reusable playbooks.
Every action—ingest, enrich, score, escalate—is logged for audit, enabling after-action reviews that actually improve posture over time.