Celebrating a Decade of Analyst-Driven Intelligence
10 years of building tools and tradecraft for defenders
Limited Series Podcast
A limited podcast series from The Vertex Project exploring how cyber threat intelligence has evolved over the past decade and what it takes to build intelligence teams can trust.
Episodes
- 2026-05-05 - Episode 1: There's CTI and There's Intelligence
- 2026-05-19 - Episode 2 TBA
- 2026-06-02 - Episode 3 TBA
- 2026-06-16 - Episode 4 TBA
- 2026-06-30 - Episode 5 TBA
- 2026-07-14 - Episode 6 TBA
- 2026-07-28 - Episode 7 TBA
- 2026-08-11 - Episode 8 TBA
- 2026-08-25 - Episode 9 TBA
- 2026-09-08 - Episode 10 TBA
Synapse Making a Difference
SentinelLabs
Top Tier Target | What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
Cisco Talos
Defining a new methodology for modeling and tracking compartmentalized threats
Red Canary
Synthesizing OSINT with threat detections, help develop detection analytics, and improve their portfolio of intel products
Vertex Evolution
2016
- The Vertex Project opens its doors.
- Launches Synapse as a central intelligence system for structured cyber data, enabling analysts to store and pivot across threat intelligence entities in a unified system.
2017
- Storm query language becomes the primary interface for analysis.
- Vertex has its first company on-site meeting (which we call "SqueeCon").
2020
- Vertex holds its first non-government sales demo.
- Introduction of Optic (Synapse's user interface).
- Synapse 2.0 Architecture - Major storage redesign for Cortex layers. The release optimized the layer storage format, significantly improving memory usage and performance.
2021
- Synapse Power-Ups Introduced.
- First recorded Synapse 101.
- First "What's New" webinar published.
- Workflows tool released.
- Introduction of the Stories tool.
2022
- Synapse Bootcamp is introduced.
- Introduction of the Spotlight Tool to highlight indicators captured from PDF or HTML blog posts.
- Introduction of Views and Layers within Synapse to create "scratch space" to provide different teams with task-specific visibility.
2023
- Addition of new display modes (Tree Graph & Timeline).
- First Pre-Cyberwarcon Challenge with KC7.
2024
- Vertex holds its second Cyberwarcon Challenge.
- Quorum Voting System released.
2025
- PIVOTcon Workshop held in Spain.
- Pre-Sleuthcon Challenge completed.
- Pre-Cyberwarcon Challenge completed.
- Vertex celebrates hitting its 15th team member and builds its RevOps department.
2026
- Vertex celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary!
- The org holds its third SqueeCon.
- The Synapse Learning Tool launches.
Kudos from Our Community
"This tool [Synapse] has changed my life as a Threat Researcher. Believe to achieve."
David Chastain, Threat Intelligence Researcher, Salesforce
"If you are looking to get into vendor space for #cti, hypergraph familiarity is a must. Not TIP experience, hypergraph experience. Almost all of the big players out there use #Synapse by The Vertex Project...So, if you want to break into CTI vendor space, this is not a nice to have, rather a requirement, especially for senior level roles."
John Doyle, Director, CTI Services, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42
"In the world of cyber threat intelligence, time is of the essence. By streamlining data analysis and fostering real-time collaboration, Synapse can significantly reduce the hours spent on threat analysis and incident response. This not only translates into cost savings but also enables faster response times, reducing the potential damage caused by cyber threats."
Wes Young, Owner, CSIRTS Gadgets
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