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Life & fun · March 27, 2024

Impulse XDR, real-time threat detection and integrity monitoring

Hello HN! Deploying the next-generation of security telemetry technologies to production is hard, so I’m building Impulse, a fully automated XDR platform that leverages tools like Osquery and eBPF to provide real-time threat detection & integrity monitoring for servers and workstations. It detects malware from behavioural patterns rather than signatures and enables deeper visibility than legacy tools. Impulse agents can be deployed on any device or VM running Linux such as cloud VMs in VPC networks, VPS servers or personal workstations and IoTs. In terms architecture, it is organised around…

Impulse XDR, real-time threat detection and integrity monitoring launched on March 27, 2024 with 5 votes, #2,083 of 4,270 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Fully automated host & network intrusion detection platform. Detects malware from behavioural patterns rather than signatures and enables deeper visibility than legacy tools. - bgenev/impulse-xdr

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hello HN! Deploying the next-generation of security telemetry technologies to production is hard, so I’m building Impulse, a fully automated XDR platform that leverages tools like Osquery and eBPF to provide real-time threat detection & integrity monitoring for servers and workstations. It detects malware from…

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