Focus on Intelligence — Not Infrastructure

SockPuppet gives cybersecurity and threat intelligence teams fully managed, secure, and flexible research environments for online investigations. No more troubleshooting and maintaining digital footprints, virtual desktops, physical devices, and the overhead of account setup and maintenance. 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, physical devices, VPNs, mobile IPs, and worst of all building and managing research environments. 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 losing time to environment disruptions, rebuilding environments 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 research environments, each with its own digital footprint across hundreds of cities. Gain regional visibility into threat actors and their behavior without corporate exposure.

  • Deploy Your Own Tooling & Automation

    Install your preferred collectors, browser extensions, or analysis tools inside the 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 research environment on the internet should operate from a single, consistent footprint, across both automated collection and manual HUMINT work. With our platform, environments are created and managed in one place where you can conduct HUMINT investigations as well as run your own automated collection, all securely integrated back into your existing infrastructure.

  • Perform Adversary Engagement Without Risk

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

  • Focus on building your OSINT collection platform

    Not managing infrastructure or research environments. With SockPuppet you can securely proxy your automated collections through the same digital footprints where your research environments operate. This keeps your team focused on your platform while SockPuppet runs the underlying platform.

Features & Functionality

Fully Managed Environment — No Infrastructure to Maintain

Shift the entire infrastructure burden including setup, maintenance, suspensions, and recreation, so your team can stay focused on core mission work. No more managing virtual environments, buying physical devices, relying on unreliable VPNs, or chasing OTP codes. We handle all of it for you.

Install & Run Your Own Collection Tools

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

  • 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 research environments at risk.

Why MSSPs & Threat Intelligence Providers Choose SockPuppet

  • Reclaims the 25% of analyst time currently spent managing 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.

  • Improves  persistence 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 set up environments manually on one footprint but run automated collections from 3rd party collection platforms a mismatch that leads to operational issues, orphaned environments, and lost intelligence & time. Alias solves this by allowing manual work and automated collectors to operate inside the same environment, using the same attribution and same digital footprint so the world sees a single, consistent footprint.

With SockPuppet:

  • Use the same investigation for both manual and automated collection

  • Run agents from 3rd party OSINT collection platforms within our environment
  • Avoid disruptions caused by mismatched attribution
  • Maintain consistent device, browser, and IP behavior

  • Preserve environment history, trust, and operational consistency

  • Produce more stable, reliable, and complete intelligence

Any automated collection tools used inside SockPuppet environments must be authorized by the customer, lawful, and compliant with applicable platform terms and technical restrictions.

Let Your Team Focus on Intelligence — Not Ops

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