Focus on Intelligence — Not Infrastructure

SockPuppet gives cybersecurity and threat intelligence teams fully managed, secure, and flexible sockpuppets for online investigations. No more troubleshooting and maintaining digital footprints, virtual desktops, burner phones, and the overhead of identity management. Your analysts can finally spend 100% of their time focusing on what they do best: collecting intelligence.

Threat intelligence teams spend enormous amounts of time maintaining the infrastructure required to collect OSINT: virtual machines, headless browsers, burner phones mobile devices, VPNs, mobile IPs, and worst of all building and managing digital identities. But these tasks aren’t their core mission, producing intelligence is.

SockPuppet eliminates that overhead. We provide a ready-to-use, secure, managed attribution environment where analysts can install their own tools, run manual or automated collection, and operate globally — without worrying about wasting time dealing with platform bans, rebuilding personas between investigations, ensuring OPSEC of the environments, or exposure.

What You Can Do With SockPuppet

  • Conduct Global Threat Intelligence Investigations

    Access platforms, communities, forums, and social networks from distinct sockpuppets with their own digital footprints across hundreds of cities. Gain regional visibility into threat actors and their behavior without corporate exposure.

  • Deploy Your Own Tooling & Automation

    Install your preferred scrapers, collectors, browser extensions, or analysis tools inside the SockPuppet environment. You keep your workflow; we provide the infrastructure.

  • Enable Managed Intelligence as a Service

    For MSSPs and managed OSINT providers, SockPuppet becomes the operational layer that powers your client-facing intelligence products — without lifting a finger to maintain the underlying infrastructure.

  • Run Manual & Automated OSINT Collection Safely & At Scale

    Every digital identity on the internet should operate from a single, consistent footprint—across both automated collection and manual HUMINT work. With our platform, identities are created and managed in one environment where you can conduct HUMINT investigations as well as run your own automated collection, all securely integrated back into your existing infrastructure.

  • Support Incident Response & Digital Investigations

    Rapidly spin up clean, non-attributable environments to investigate phishing infrastructure, adversary behavior, malware distribution, and emerging threats.

  • Perform Adversary Engagement Without Risk

    Safely observe, interact, or gather information from threat actors when needed, without using corporate networks, corporate devices, or corporate IP ranges.

Features & Functionality

Fully Managed Environment — No Infrastructure to Maintain

Shift the entire identity-creation lifecycle to us—including setup, maintenance, suspensions, and recreations—so your team can stay focused on core mission work. No more managing virtual environments, buying burner phones, relying on shady VPNs, or chasing OTP codes. We handle all of it for you.

Install & Run Your Own Collection Tools

SockPuppet is tool-agnostic. Each identity includes their own persistent Windows or Linux virtual desktop and mobile phone where you can customize your stack. Analysts can install:

  • scrapers
  • OSINT crawlers
  • dark web monitoring tools
  • browser extensions
  • threat intel agents
  • custom scripts
  • collection platforms

You bring the tooling; we provide the secure environment that supports it.

Operational Safety for Every Analyst

OPSEC isn’t left to chance, we engineered it into the platform. Every analyst works inside a locked-down, isolated environment designed to prevent attribution mistakes, case overlap, or accidental exposure. This gives organizations the assurance that new team members can immediately contribute without putting active operations or digital identities at risk.

Why MSSPs & Threat Intelligence Providers Choose SockPuppet

  • Eliminates the 25% of analyst time wasted on managing identities and infrastructure.
  • Delivers greater efficiency and more actionable intelligence than in-house setups.
  • Built-in OPSEC lets teams onboard new analysts quickly and safely.
  • Supports existing tools and workflows directly within the platform.
  • Reduces ban rates and makes automated and manual collection more reliable.
  • Enables scaling intel offerings without increasing operations headcount.
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Unified Footprint for HUMINT + Automated Collection

Threat intelligence teams often create identities manually on one footprint but run automated collections from 3rd party collection platforms — a mismatch that leads to bans, orphaned identities, and lost intelligence & time. SockPuppet solves this by allowing manual work and automated collectors to operate inside the same environment, using the same identity, same attribution, and same digital footprint the outside world sees as a single, consistent user.

With SockPuppet:

  • Use the same persona for both manual and automated collection
  • Run agents from 3rd party OSINT collection platforms within our environment
  • Avoid bans caused by mismatched attribution
  • Maintain consistent device, browser, and IP behavior
  • Preserve identity history, trust, and credibility
  • Produce more stable, reliable, and complete intelligence

Let Your Team Focus on Intelligence — Not Ops

SockPuppet removes the infrastructure burden so cybersecurity and TI teams can operate globally, flexibly, and safely.