Introducing ‘Known Distributors’

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 Providing more context about file provenance and distribution

These days many security operations center (SOC) teams are overwhelmed by huge volumes of alerts. Triaging these alerts takes too long, and many are never investigated at all. “Alert fatigue” leads analysts to take alerts less seriously than they should, resulting in missed threats and consummated breaches. 

One of VirusTotal’s main use cases is automatic security telemetry enrichment with the aim of performing alert triage. Indeed, VirusTotal is not only one of the largest and richest malware datasets in the world, over the years we have aggregated all sorts of security-relevant data points for files, URLs, domains and IPs, including goodware indicators and provenance details. As a result, many SOCs are using VirusTotal to perform automated false positive discardingIntroducing ‘Known Distributors’