What is Swarm?

Swarm is GreyNoise's sensor deployment and threat analysis platform. It enables security teams and researchers to deploy honeypot sensors on their own infrastructure and gain direct visibility into the attack traffic targeting their network, industry, or geographic region.

Sensors forward traffic to GreyNoise's infrastructure, where realistic device profiles handle all interaction with attackers — from protocol handshakes to full exploitation. This means teams get the intelligence value of running honeypots without the operational risk or infrastructure burden of managing them.

Swarm combines deployment, analysis, and detection in a single platform: a library of 200+ device profiles, a query interface across 250+ traffic fields, packet-level inspection, custom detection rules using Suricata, and the ability to compare what's hitting your sensors against GreyNoise's Global Observation Grid. Security teams can focus on understanding attacker behavior rather than building and maintaining deception infrastructure.

Who is Swarm for?

Swarm is designed for researchers, security practitioners, and organizations that want direct visibility into real-world attack activity and the ability to actively analyze it.

It is used by:

• Security researchers investigating attack patterns, discovering new threats, and publishing findings
• SOC teams, threat hunters, and incident responders seeking targeted threat intelligence specific to their environment
• Enterprise and vendor security teams looking for visibility into how their products or infrastructure are being attacked in the wild
• MSSPs and managed security providers deploying and managing sensor fleets on behalf of clients across diverse environments
• Government and national cybersecurity agencies monitoring threats against critical infrastructure or sovereign IP space
• Academic researchers and honeypot operators studying attack methodologies and large-scale threat behavior

Swarm supports varying levels of technical depth, from teams looking for turnkey analysis to advanced practitioners who want raw packet data and flexible investigation workflows.

Who can access Swarm?

Swarm is available to anyone with a GreyNoise account. If you don't have one, you can create a free account at viz.greynoise.io.