cti-stix-elevator 0.2.0 released

["Piazza, Rich" <rpiazza@mitre.org>]

Hi everyone-

 

We just published cti-stix-elevator version 0.2.0 on PyPi [1]. The source code is available at [2].

 

The stix2-elevator is a work-in-progress. It should be used to explore how existing STIX 1.x would potentially be represented in STIX 2.0. Using the current version of the elevator will provide insight to issues that might need to be mitigated to convert your STIX 1.x content.

 

It should not be used in a production environment, and should not be considered final.

 

The elevator can be used on STIX 1.1.1 or STIX 1.2 content.  However, you will need to download the correct version of python-stix depending upon which type of content you have.  It is not possible to have both versions of python-stix installed at once.

 

For STIX 1.1.1 content:

 

-          pip install stix<1.2  - this will install python-stix 1.1.1.8

-          pip install stix2-elevator

 

For STIX 1.2 content:

 

-          pip install stix2-elevator  - this will install python-stix 1.2.0.2

 

The most important changes in the new release are:

 

-          support for the most current version of the STIX specification

-          improved management of messages – The elevator outputs many messages.  The command line interface now allows you to disable particular messages that you are not interested in.

-          improved conversion of indicator patterns to the STIX patterning language.

(STIX 1.x Composite Indicator Expressions and CybOX 2.x Composite Observable Expressions allow a level of flexibility not present in STIX 2 patterns. These composite expressions can frequently have ambiguous interpretations, so STIX 2 Indicators created by the stix-elevator from STIX 1.x Indicators containing composite expressions should be inspected to ensure the STIX 2 Indicator has the intended meaning.)

-          Set default timestamps and created_by_refs on the command line

 

Please enter an issue on Github for bugs and feature requests.

 

Contributions welcome.

  

Rich Piazza

Greg Back

MITRE

 

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stix2-elevator/0.2.0

[2] https://github.com/oasis-open/cti-stix-elevator.