Event feed, notes and export for reporting, but the most interesting thing is how convenient it is in a combat tempo.
There comes a point in any normal penetration testing process when the most valuable information gets lost in disjointed notes: who ran what, on which node, what results were obtained, and where exactly to look for them when preparing the report. Security researcher Tyrrell Brewster released Chronix to address this pain point: a self-hosted collaborative workspace for penetration testers and red team operators, designed to record the progress of work as it's being performed.
Chronix is designed to maintain a "chronology" of actions, linked to time and context: you can save notes, commands, and tool output, mark the source and target, and then quickly filter and search by tools, targets, or text. Notes are written in Markdown with autosaving and version history, and changes are synced between participants in real time. Reporting options include exporting the history to CSV, and compiling notes into Markdown files, including attachments such as screenshots pasted from the clipboard.
The project is written in Python (support for Python 3.9+ is stated), and is designed for the simplest possible setup: installation, initialization with account and session secret creation, then starting a local server and opening it in a browser. The author specifically warns that credentials are only shown once during initialization and should be stored securely. Chronix is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license, which is important to consider for those planning to further develop the system and provide network access. At the time of publication, there are no formal releases in the repository, so the tool is apparently in the early stages of its "first public release." Such solutions should only be used for legitimate work and with the permission of the infrastructure owners, as they will inevitably contain sensitive surveillance data.
There comes a point in any normal penetration testing process when the most valuable information gets lost in disjointed notes: who ran what, on which node, what results were obtained, and where exactly to look for them when preparing the report. Security researcher Tyrrell Brewster released Chronix to address this pain point: a self-hosted collaborative workspace for penetration testers and red team operators, designed to record the progress of work as it's being performed.
Chronix is designed to maintain a "chronology" of actions, linked to time and context: you can save notes, commands, and tool output, mark the source and target, and then quickly filter and search by tools, targets, or text. Notes are written in Markdown with autosaving and version history, and changes are synced between participants in real time. Reporting options include exporting the history to CSV, and compiling notes into Markdown files, including attachments such as screenshots pasted from the clipboard.
The project is written in Python (support for Python 3.9+ is stated), and is designed for the simplest possible setup: installation, initialization with account and session secret creation, then starting a local server and opening it in a browser. The author specifically warns that credentials are only shown once during initialization and should be stored securely. Chronix is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license, which is important to consider for those planning to further develop the system and provide network access. At the time of publication, there are no formal releases in the repository, so the tool is apparently in the early stages of its "first public release." Such solutions should only be used for legitimate work and with the permission of the infrastructure owners, as they will inevitably contain sensitive surveillance data.
