Understanding STIX and TAXII
The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit company that provides guidance in the form of frameworks and standards to assist with the development of stronger cybersecurity controls; the STIX language and TAXII protocol are some examples of this development effort.
These two standards were developed by an open community effort, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in partnership with the MITRE Corporation. These are not software products, but the standards that products can use to enable automation and compatibility when sharing TI information with your security community and business partners.
As per the description provided by MITRE: STIX is a collaborative community-driven effort to define and develop a standardized language to represent structured cyber threat information. The STIX language was developed to ensure threat information can be shared, stored, and used in a consistent manner to facilitate automation and human-assisted...