Maltego license form change (September 2020 change)

■ This is an article posted on June 2020, 10, so the content of the information may be out of date.

Our overseas product procurement / consultation service Unipos Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Tool, available at Maltego We would like to inform you that the license form has changed from mid-September 2020.

Until now, it was sold in two forms, Maltego Classic / Maltego XL, but the new license will be sold in two forms, Maltego Pro / Maltego Enterprise (*).Please note that we only handle Maltego Enterprise (*).

* Enterprise has a Cloud version and an On-Premise version.

Maltego Pro must be ordered directly from the manufacturer by the user

 

 

Product Overview – About Maltego

Maltego is an open source intelligence (OSINT) tool for collecting information under investigation and visualizing and analyzing the relationships of information.It is used as a forensic investigation and analysis tool to eliminate security threats.

In addition to public data sources (OSINT) such as DNS names, domains, IP addresses, and websites, data sources provided by partner companies can also be integrated and used, and each piece of information is connected as a node in the form of a graph. Visualize with.

Differences between the old Classic / XL and the new Pro / Enterprise

The main difference between the old form Classic / XL and the new form Pro / Enterprise is that the desktop client for visualizing graphs, which had different functions and specifications between Classic and XL, is now available in Pro and Enterprise. , Will be a common client Maltego One.

As shown in the figure below, Maltego One has the same functions as Maltego XL.

About the difference between Pro and Enterprise

Next, I will introduce the differences between the Pro and Enterprise license types, which share the same desktop client as described above.

Deployment & Infrastructure

Maltego is deployed through Maltego's own infrastructure.This infrastructure is different for Pro and Enterprise.

Deployment & Infrastructure image of "Malte go Pro"

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Maltego Pro is Maltego's standard public Transforms serverMaltego Community Cloud It is executed via.

"Malte go Enterprise"Deployment & Infrastructure image

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Maltego Enterprise is a dedicated server in the EU or US Maltego Enterprise Cloud It is executed via.

In addition, Maltego Enterprise On-premise By selecting the version, you can run it through the on-premises server and integrate your own data.

For more information about each Deployment & InfrastructureHave a look at this

data integration

Features for data integration in Maltego Transform Hub Enables integration with a variety of partner data sources, from threat intelligence and network footprint data to social media and crypto forensics.

Transform Hub has free and paid data sources.For paid data sources, Maltego Pro must be purchased as needed, but Maltego Enterpriese has access to all data.

In addition, please refer to the table below for the specifications of Maltego Pro / Maltego Enterprise / Maltego Enterprise On-Premise regarding Transform Hub.

Maltego Pro Maltego Enterprise Maltego Enterprise On-Premise
Access to OSINT data sources available Access to OSINT data sources (In addition to the contents of Maltego Enterprise on the left ...)
Paid access to commercial Transforms Access to all commercial data partner Transforms available Enterprise on-premise integrations
Case File Entities CaseFile Entities Own API keys for Standard Transforms
Access to Pro data integrations available Access to Enterprise data integrations available Role-based access control for on-premise data integration (Oauth 2.0) possible

Learn more about Transform HubHave a look at this

Others

 The Maltego Enterprise On-Premise version license is counted as "per user".A license is required for each user, so please be careful when using it.

For a more detailed Maltego Pro / Maltego Enterprise / Maltego Enterprise On-Premise feature comparison hereYou can check by switching tabs with.

Information for users of the old license

Users of the old license form Maltego Classic and Maltego XL can continue to use it by switching the license to Maltego Pro or Enterprise when renewing the existing license (*).

* Maltego is an annual subscription

As mentioned earlier, the new desktop client Maltego One has Maltego XL-equivalent features.

Summary

Due to the change in license form, the specifications of the desktop client (upper limit of the number of results per Transform and the upper limit of the number of entries on the graph) are the same as the higher version Maltego XL, making it easier to use.Then, depending on the nature of the server and the data source you want to use, you can now flexibly select the license type.

In addition, with this change in license format, manufacturers are planning to enhance the support menu and learning content to make it easier for users to use Maltego.As part of this, Maltego Basic, an online introductory course with 19 items and 59 lessons, is scheduled to be held (as of October 2020, 10). EARLY ACCESS The reception is open, and the first 100 people can access it free of charge).

Please feel free to contact Unipos for new licenses of Maltego and renewal (switching) of existing licenses.