Infection Monkey

Infection Monkey#

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Description#

Infection Monkey is an open-source adversary emulation platform that helps you improve your security posture using empirical data. The Monkey uses various methods to self-propagate across a network and reports its activities to a centralized command and control server known as the Monkey Island. You know, like malware, but safe.

Home page for this solution: https://www.akamai.com/infectionmonkey

Overview#

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Name

monkey

Description

Infection Monkey - An open-source adversary emulation platform

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

Programming Language

Python

Created

2015-08-30

Last update

2025-05-01

Github Stars

6963

Project Home Page

https://www.guardicore.com/infectionmonkey/

Code Repository

guardicore/monkey

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