SATARK Documentation¶
SATARK — Scalable Automated Technology for Analysis and Ranking of Known Threats — is an open-source security analytics framework for building explainable detection pipelines across multiple security domains.
Official project website: https://satark.org/
What problem it solves¶
Security teams and researchers often rebuild the same plumbing for every detector: ingest, normalize, score, explain, and map findings to knowledge bases. SATARK provides a shared, plugin-first architecture so those capabilities can be reused across insider threat, malware, phishing, identity, cloud, web, and email analytics.
Who it is for¶
- Security researchers prototyping detections
- Engineers building reusable analytics plugins
- Teams that need transparent risk scores (not unexplained numbers)
- Contributors extending domain coverage without rewriting the core
Current status¶
SATARK is an early open-source rebuild (alpha). APIs, packaging, and plugin coverage are evolving. Do not treat the project as production-ready unless your own evaluation supports that conclusion.
Supported plugin domains¶
| Domain | Plugin name | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Insider threats | insider |
Implemented (behavioral spikes) |
| Malware | malware |
Heuristic stub |
| Phishing | phishing |
Heuristic stub |
| Web | web |
Heuristic stub |
email |
Heuristic stub | |
| Cloud | cloud |
Heuristic stub |
| Identity | identity |
Heuristic stub |