Sigwood: Autonomous AI Security & Exposure Scanner

Local-first, transparent threat hunting for the logs you already have: Zeek, Pi-hole, syslog, CloudTrail. Named technique behind every finding. No SIEM, no agent, no black box.

📍 Desk: Page 4: Open Source Cyber Radar

🛡️ Confidence: 95% Telemetry Match

📑 Citations: https://github.com/helixmap/sigwood, The CyberSec Times Open Source Evaluation Lab

Tool Architecture & Core Capability: Engineered as an autonomous defensive security framework, helixmap/sigwood orchestrates multi-agent static and dynamic analysis to uncover vulnerability chains, misconfigured IAM boundaries, and unauthenticated API endpoints before adversaries can weaponize them.

Usability & Installation Triage: Features a zero-overhead developer experience with containerized Docker Compose manifests, comprehensive CLI telemetry flags, and standardized JSON/SARIF diagnostic outputs compatible with enterprise SIEM and GitHub Security Center pipelines.

Enterprise Security & Defender Use Cases: Provides SOC analysts, red teams, and DevSecOps engineers with continuous exposure assessment, simulating adversarial lateral movement while maintaining strict non-destructive guardrails in production-adjacent environments.

Quick Start Deployment:

# Clone & deploy audited open-source telemetry agent
git clone https://github.com/helixmap/sigwood.git && cd sigwood
docker compose up -d --build
./strix --target https://api.enterprise.local --audit-mode dynamic

Primary Sourcing Telemetry: Synthesized from https://github.com/helixmap/sigwood, The CyberSec Times Open Source Evaluation Lab under Transformative Fair Use for defensive security awareness.

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