Getting started

This guide aims to give you a full overview of the OpenCTI features and workflows. The platform can be used in various contexts to handle threats management use cases from a technical to a more strategic level. OpenCTI has been designed as a knowledge graph, taking inputs (threat intelligence feeds, sightings & alerts, vulnerabilities, assets, artifacts, etc.) and generating outputs based on built-in capabilities and / or connectors.

Here are some examples of use cases:

• Cyber Threat Intelligence knowledge base
• Detection as code feeds for XDR, EDR, SIEMs, firewalls, proxies, etc.
• Incident response artifacts & cases management
• Vulnerabilities management
• Reporting, alerting and dashboarding on a subset of data

Welcome dashboard

The welcome gives any visitor on the OpenCTI platform an outlook on the live of the platform. It can be replaced by a custom dashboard, created by a user (or the default dashboard in a role, a group or an organization).

Indicators in the dashboard

Numbers

Component	Description
Total entities	Number of entities (threat actor, intrusion set, indicator, etc.).
Total relationships	Number of relationships (targets, uses, indicates, etc.).
Total reports	Number of reports.
Total observables	Number of observables (IPv4-Addr, File, etc.).

Charts & lists

Component	Description
Top labels	Top labels given to entities during the last 3 months.
Ingested entities	Number of entities ingested by month.
Top 10 active entities	List of the entities with the greatest number of relations over the last 3 months.
Targeted countries	Intensity of the targeting tied to the number of relations targets for a given country.
Observable distribution	Distribution of the number of observables by type.
Last ingested reports	Last reports ingested in the platform.