The AlienVault Open Threat Exchange™ (AV-OTX™) is a system for sharing threat intelligence among OSSIM users and AlienVault customers. An attack on any member of the community alerts and arms the entire community with the timely intelligence required to better manage a similar attack.

Sharing information related to the source and nature of attacks allows us, as a community, to quickly isolate malicious or compromised hosts. In addition, information related to attack patterns helps identify new attack tools and methods that can feed research on new defense technology.