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Version: 2.8.1

🤔 Why Jibril?

Runtime security tools have traditionally forced organizations into an impossible choice: comprehensive visibility with crippling performance overhead, or acceptable performance with blind spots. Jibril eliminates this trade-off entirely.

🎯 The Mission​

Deliver real-time security insights with minimal overhead while maintaining robust reliability and forensic integrity.

The Jibril Promise

Complete Visibility + Zero Event Loss + Minimal Overhead

No compromises. No trade-offs. Just results.

🌟 What Sets Jibril Apart​

👁️ Unmatched Visibility​

Jibril tracks every system resource and interaction with complete context:

👤 Identity & Execution​

  • ⚙️ Every process, thread, and binary
  • 👥 All users, groups, and permissions
  • 📦 Container and namespace operations
  • 🌳 Complete process genealogy

📁 File Operations​

  • 📝 Every file access, modification, and deletion
  • ⚙️ Configuration file changes
  • 🔑 Credential file access
  • 📚 Library loading and modifications

🌐 Network Activity​

  • 🔄 All connections and network flows
  • 🌍 DNS queries and domain access
  • 📡 Protocol usage and traffic patterns
  • 🔗 Internal and external communication

🎯 No Blind Spots​

  • 🚫 Cannot be bypassed from userspace
  • 📦 Container escapes are visible
  • 👑 Root processes fully monitored
  • 🌐 System-wide coverage

💪 No traditional tool matches this level of comprehensive, tamper-proof visibility.

⚡ Revolutionary Performance​

Where other tools collapse under load, Jibril thrives:

📊 Constant Overhead​

  • 💻 Sub-5% CPU overhead regardless of event volume
  • 🚀 Handles 100,000+ events per second easily
  • 📉 No performance spikes during attacks
  • 💾 Predictable, bounded memory usage

📈 Counter-Intuitive Scaling​

  • ⬆️ Performance improves with higher event loads
  • 🎯 Better cache hit ratios at scale
  • 📦 Efficient batch processing
  • ⚡ Minimal context switching

✅ Production-Ready​

  • 🏢 Deploy in critical environments with confidence
  • 🎛️ Minimal tuning or capacity planning required
  • 🔒 Zero event loss guarantees complete visibility
  • 📏 Deterministic resource consumption

🚀 Jibril has been designed and tested on high workload environments.

🛡️ Proactive Security​

Jibril doesn't just monitor-it actively protects:

⚡ Real-Time Detection​

  • 🔍 In-kernel pattern matching for immediate threat identification
  • ⏱️ Sub-5 second detection latency regardless of event volume
  • 👁️ Immediate event visibility through printers
  • 🧠 Very complete contextual threat analysis

🤖 Automated Reactions​

  • 💻 JavaScript-based reaction engine
  • 🚫 Block malicious processes automatically
  • 📦 Isolate compromised containers
  • 🔧 Trigger remediation workflows
  • 📢 Alert security teams instantly

🎯 Comprehensive Detection​

  • 📋 Built-in detection recipes for common threats
  • 🔧 Custom detection recipes for specific risks
  • 📊 Threat scoring and prioritization

📖 Learn more: Custom Detections and Reactions

🔒 Data Immutability​

Once captured, event data cannot be modified:

🔐 Forensic Integrity​

  • 🛡️ Tamper-proof evidence collection
  • 📋 Trustworthy audit trails
  • 🔍 Reliable investigation data
  • 🔑 Cryptographic verification

📊 Complete Context​

  • 🎯 Full system state at event time
  • 🌳 Process ancestry and relationships
  • 🔧 Environment variables and arguments
  • 🌐 Network peers and connections

⚠️ Traditional tools lose this context or allow it to be modified, compromising investigations.

🚀 Beyond Ring Buffers​

Ring buffer architectures are fundamentally flawed for security monitoring:

❌ Problems with Ring Buffers​

  • 💥 Dropped events during high-volume periods
  • 🔀 Unpredictable memory consumption
  • 📉 Performance degrades exponentially under load
  • ❗ Data loss when visibility matters most

✅ Jibril's Query-Driven Approach​

  • 💾 Events are never lost and stored in kernel
  • 📏 Predictable memory usage
  • ⚡ Constant performance regardless of event volume
  • 🔒 Complete event capture guaranteed
This architectural difference isn't incremental - it's transformational.

🏗️ Learn more: Architecture Overview

🎨 Core Capabilities​

🔬 Integrated Kernel Monitoring​

Jibril combines introspection and tracing in a unified tool:

🔍 Introspection​

  • 📸 Current system state queries
  • 📋 Process and file inventories
  • 🌐 Network connection tables
  • ⚙️ Real-time configuration snapshots

📡 Tracing​

  • 🔄 Continuous event monitoring
  • 🧠 Behavioral pattern analysis
  • ⏱️ Temporal correlation
  • 🕵️ Historical forensics

⚠️ Traditional tools require multiple separate solutions for these capabilities.

🧠 Intelligent Performance Optimization​

Jibril optimizes performance automatically:

💾 Query Caching​

  • 🎯 Frequently accessed data cached intelligently
  • 🔒 Immutability enables aggressive caching
  • 📈 Cache hit ratios improve with scale
  • ✅ No manual tuning required

🔄 Adaptive Processing​

  • 📦 Batch operations under high load
  • ⚡ Efficient kernel-userspace communication
  • 🔀 Minimal context switching
  • 🎛️ Self-tuning based on workload

🔌 Ecosystem Integration​

Seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure:

💾 External Data Stores​

  • 📄 Stream events to local or remote storage
  • 🚰 Fluent Bit integration for ingestion and aggregation
  • 🗄️ PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and other database backends
  • 🔍 Elasticsearch for powerful search and analytics
  • 🔌 Custom storage plugins for specialized needs

🛡️ Security Platforms​

  • 🔍 SIEM integration (Splunk, Elastic Security, IBM QRadar)
  • 🚨 Alert management (PagerDuty, OpsGenie, VictorOps)
  • 🎫 Ticketing systems (Jira, ServiceNow, Zendesk)
  • 🕵️ Threat intelligence platforms (MISP, ThreatConnect)
  • 📊 Observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana)

🔗 APIs and Webhooks​

  • 🔌 RESTful API for programmatic control
  • 🎯 Webhooks for real-time event delivery
  • 🧩 Plugin architecture for custom integrations
  • 🔍 GraphQL support for flexible data queries

📡 Information Acquisition​

Jibril provides multiple methods for acquiring security information, each optimized for different use cases:

🔍 Queries​

📊 Rapid System Inventory​

  • ⚡ Instant process and file listings
  • 🌐 Network connection tables
  • 👥 User and permission enumeration
  • 📦 Container and namespace discovery

📋 Baseline Assessments​

  • 🔎 System fingerprinting
  • ✅ Configuration validation
  • 📜 Compliance checking
  • 🔄 Drift detection

💡 Queries provide immediate visibility without waiting for events to occur.

📝 Micro Events​

⚡ Efficient Activity Capture​

  • 🪶 Lightweight event recording
  • 🏷️ Minimal metadata: timestamp, type, key identifiers
  • 💾 Low overhead storage
  • 📊 Complete coverage without bloat

💡 Micro events capture what happened without drowning in unnecessary details.

🔄 Continuous Detection​

🛡️ Proactive Threat Identification​

  • ⏱️ Interval-based queries to kernel data
  • 🧠 Pattern recognition across events
  • 📊 Behavioral anomaly detection
  • 🚀 Persistent monitoring without performance impact

💡 Continuous detection identifies threats before damage occurs.

Self-managed (or cloud-managed) solutions for back-end storage, API and intelligence are available.

📊 Complete Coverage​

🎯 Resource Tracking​

Jibril delivers exhaustive monitoring of all critical system elements:

👤
Identity
  • 👥 Users & groups
  • 🔐 Authentication
  • 🔑 Permissions
🖥️
Infrastructure
  • 💻 Machines & nodes
  • 🏷️ Namespaces
  • 📦 Containers
💾
Storage
  • 💿 Disks & filesystems
  • 📂 Volumes & mounts
  • 📄 Files & directories
⚙️
Execution
  • 🔄 Processes & threads
  • 📋 Binaries & libraries
  • 🐍 Interpreters
🌐
Network
  • 📡 Protocols & ports
  • 🌍 Domains & IPs
  • 🔄 Connections & flows

🎯 This comprehensive coverage ensures no security-relevant activity escapes detection.

🎬 Action Visibility​

Jibril records every interaction with system resources:

🔄 Lifecycle Events​

  • ➕ Create and destroy
  • ▶️ Start and stop
  • 🔀 Fork, clone, exit

✏️ Modification Actions​

  • ✂️ Truncate and rename
  • 🔗 Link and unlink
  • 📂 Open and close
  • 🗂️ Mount and unmount

📝 Data Operations​

  • 📖 Read and write
  • 🔍 Seek and execute
  • 📋 Copy and move

🔧 Advanced Interactions​

  • 🗺️ Memory mapping
  • 🔄 Synchronization
  • 🔒 Locking/unlocking
  • 🎚️ Capability modifications
  • 🏷️ Namespace changes

🔍 This detailed activity logging provides the precise chronology and context needed to analyze incidents and respond effectively.

⚖️ Advantages Over Alternatives​

🆚 vs. Traditional Security Tools​

❌ Falco, Sysdig, Tracee, Tetragon​

  • 💥 All use ring buffers → event loss under load
  • 📈 Higher CPU overhead at scale
  • 🔧 Limited customization options
  • 👁️ Less comprehensive visibility

✅ Jibril​

  • 🚀 Query-driven → zero event loss
  • ⚡ Constant low overhead
  • 🎨 Flexible detection and reaction engine
  • 🌐 Complete system coverage

🆚 vs. Host-Based IDS/IPS​

❌ OSSEC, Wazuh, Aide​

  • 📁 File integrity checking only
  • 🔍 Limited runtime visibility
  • ⚠️ High false positive rates
  • 🔄 Reactive, not proactive

✅ Jibril​

  • 👁️ Complete runtime monitoring
  • 🌐 Comprehensive visibility
  • ✅ Low false positives with context
  • 🛡️ Proactive threat prevention

🆚 vs. Audit Frameworks​

❌ auditd, auditbeat​

  • 📈 High overhead at scale
  • 🔧 Complex rule configuration
  • 📋 Limited context
  • 🚫 No automated response

✅ Jibril​

  • ⚡ Minimal overhead
  • ✅ Simple configuration
  • 🔍 Complete context
  • 🤖 Built-in reaction engine

🎯 Use Cases​

☸️ Cloud-Native Security​

  • 📦 Kubernetes and container monitoring
  • 🛡️ Pod security policy enforcement
  • 🕸️ Service mesh visibility
  • 🔒 Multi-tenant isolation verification

📜 Compliance & Auditing​

  • 📋 Complete audit trails
  • 🔒 Tamper-proof evidence
  • ✅ Regulatory compliance (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2)
  • 🔍 Forensic investigations

🛡️ Threat Detection​

  • 🚨 Zero-day vulnerability exploitation
  • 💰 Crypto-mining detection
  • 🔄 Lateral movement tracking
  • 📤 Data exfiltration prevention

🔧 DevSecOps​

  • 🔄 CI/CD pipeline security
  • 💻 Development environment monitoring
  • 🚀 Production deployment verification
  • 📦 GitOps integration

🚀 Getting Started​

Ready to experience the difference? Get started with Jibril: