This article outlines practical use cases across Silent Push Data Export features, showing how different teams and roles leverage these tools to address real-world cybersecurity challenges, from proactive hunting and compliance to automation and collaboration.
Archive Exports Use Cases
Auditing Past Incidents for Compliance Reporting
Regulatory bodies require evidence of how historical threats were identified and mitigated (e.g., GDPR, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 audits).
Approach: Download historical domain/IP threat data as CSV from Archive Exports. Import into spreadsheets or reporting tools to build timelines, show detection/response, and demonstrate proactive measures over time.
Benefit: Saves significant time on manual data reconstruction and provides defensible audit trails.
Long-Term Threat Actor Pattern Analysis
Understanding how APT groups or ransomware operators evolve their infrastructure (e.g., IP rotations, domain generation).
Approach: Set up automated JSON/CSV pulls from relevant historical feeds. Load into graph visualization tools (Neo4j, Maltego) to map connections and predict future infrastructure.
Benefit: Turns historical data into predictive intelligence for proactive blocking.
Bulk Data Exports Use Cases
Offline Custom Threat Database & ML Model Training
Research or data science teams need large volumes of fresh domain data for training phishing/malware detection models.
Approach: Schedule daily automated TXT exports of “Newly Registered Domains” or “New ccTLD Domains”. Ingest into local database or ML pipeline (e.g., Python with pandas/scikit-learn).
Benefit: Enables scalable, cost-efficient offline processing without constant API calls.
Supply Chain Risk & Vendor Infrastructure Monitoring
Early detection of potential supply chain compromises (domain hijacking, DNS manipulation).
Approach: Automate “All Name Server Changes” or “New Self-Named Nameservers” feeds. Build a watchlist of critical vendor domains. Trigger alerts in SOAR when matches occur.
Benefit: Provides days/weeks of early warning before malicious activity escalates.
IOFA Exports Use Cases
Proactive Threat Hunting & Preemptive Defense
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) teams want to focus on Indicators of Future Attack (emerging C2, phishing kits, etc.) rather than just known IOCs.
Approach: Automate JSON exports of IOFA feeds. Visualize in dashboards (Kibana, Splunk) or feed into hunting playbooks for proactive sweeps.
Benefit: Shifts security posture from reactive to anticipatory, potentially preventing incidents.
IP Context (Add-on) Use Cases
Rapid Incident Response & Enrichment
During live incidents, analysts need fast context on suspicious IPs (attribution, campaign links, historical activity).
Approach: Use IP Context for immediate lookup. Cross-reference findings with exported feeds from other sections. Enrich incident tickets/timelines.
Benefit: Reduces mean time to respond (MTTR) and improves decision-making during high-pressure events.
Organization Exports Use Cases
Automated Threat Feed Ingestion for SOAR and Orchestration
Security teams want hands-off delivery of high-confidence indicators to blocking tools and playbooks.
Approach: Automate RPZ/TXT/CSV exports. Integrate with SOAR platforms (Demisto, Swimlane, Splunk SOAR) for automated actions (block, alert, ticket).
Benefit: Eliminates manual steps, enabling faster and more consistent response.
Executive Reporting & Custom Campaign Tracking
Leadership and stakeholders need clear, up-to-date views of specific threat campaigns or risk areas.
Approach: Use search/filter in Organization Exports → Download STIX/CSV for executive briefings, board reports, or partner sharing.
Benefit: Provides concise, visual-ready intelligence for strategic decision-making.
Tips
Combine features: Use Bulk/Archive data to enrich custom Organization feeds
Start small: Test integrations with limited datasets before full-scale automation
Document everything: Create internal playbooks for each use case to ensure team consistency
Leverage snippets: Use the provided cURL/Python/PHP code to speed up integration