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Security Monitoring & Threat Hunting

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  • Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.
  • Health score: 86/100.
  • Shipping score: 84/100.

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Stronger current public-health signal than Security Onion.

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Gridwolf

Open-source unified security operations & threat intelligence platform for OT/ICS environments with ontology-driven dashboards

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Health72
Shipping71
Score75
Confidence82
ModeSource-visible project
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