GRR Rapid Response

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
Apache License 2.0
Programming language
Python
Latest release
v3.4.7.1-release
Latest release date

Project health

93
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Why this tool?

The goal of the GRR tooling is to support digital forensics and investigations. By using a fast and scalable model, analysts can quickly perform their analysis. One of the main features is the ability to search for particular information or details. This process is called hunting.

How it works

GRR uses a Python-based agent that is installed on the target systems. The server infrastructure, which also uses Python, perform the management and communicates with the client systems.

The analyst can use the central management console to configure flows. A flow has a particular task that may request for data on client systems. This could be retrieving something like a MAC address or looking for particular files on the system and show the details. The flows are used as part of a hunt, where one is actively seeking for the presence or the absence of some information. The analyst can take decisions based on the outcome.

Usage and audience

GRR Rapid Response is commonly used for digital forensics, intrusion detection, or threat hunting. Target users for this tool are forensic specialists, security professionals, and system administrators.

Features

  • Focus on high performance
  • Web interface

Tool review and remarks

The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:

Strengths

  • + More than 25 contributors
  • + More than 3000 GitHub stars
  • + The source code of this software is available
  • + Supported by a large company

Author and Maintainers

Supporting company

This project is maintained by Google

Installation

Supported operating systems

GRR Rapid Response is known to work on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.

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