Setting up MISP

MISP is an open source software and there are different ways we can install it to build our own threat intelligence and share it with the community. MISP can be installed on most Linux distributions, and the MISP community has created simple install scripts. MISP has many dependencies and combines various software to function properly. This is also known as the LAMP stack:

• Linux operating system
• Apache for web server
• MySQL relational database
• Miscellaneous—PHP, Perl, Python

We can deploy MISP in different environments (https://www.misp-project.org/download/), such as Docker, VirtualBox VM, and VMware VM. Deploying MISP and its dependencies via Docker is by far the simplest installation process I’ve found. VirtualBox VM and VMware VM are good for lab and testing environments. Take the following steps to set up MISP:

1. Fulfill the requirements.
2. Install Docker and Docker Compose.
3. Set up and launch MISP.
4. Add an...