Netflix Open Sources Internal Threat Monitoring Tools

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @01:40PM from the how-they-watch-you-watching-them dept.

alphadogg (971356) writes Netflix has released three internal tools it uses to catch hints on the Web that hackers might target its services. "Many security teams need to stay on the lookout for Internet-based discussions, posts and other bits that may be of impact to the organizations they are protecting," wrote Andy Hoernecke and Scott Behrens of Netflix's Cloud Security Team. One of the tools, called Scumblr, can be used to create custom searches of Google sites, Twitter and Facebook for users or keywords.

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Re: I wonder why they released these. by bsDaemon · 2014-08-27 14:05 · Score: 5, Interesting

Their github account has 3 pages worth of stuff and they put a lot back into FreeBSD, too.
Re:I wonder why they released these. by CrankyFool · 2014-08-27 16:26 · Score: 5, Informative

I work at Netflix (and manage a software development group).
The general approach to OSS can generally be summarized as "if it's not core product (algorithms, recommendations, etc), why haven't you open-sourced it yet?"
It's one of the (very many) nice parts of the job.