Text Feed Help
Text Feed
The MS-ISAC Cyber Alert Level Indicator is available as a text-based feed. The following fields are available in the text feed:
- Alert Level Indicator Level ("low","guarded","elevated","high","severe")
- Alert Level Indicator Color ("green","blue","yellow","orange","red")
- Alert Level Indicator Description - full text description of Cyber Alert Level Indicator
- New Advisory Indicator - ("true","false") - indicates if a "new" advisory has been published. An advisory is considered "new" if it is less than 4 days old.
- Daily Cyber Tip - Title of our Cyber Tip-of-the-Day
How to access the feed data
- For Help with this feed (the page you are seeing) specify the URL parameter "help":
https://feeds.cisecurity.org/text - Default Feed:
https://feeds.cisecurity.org/text - this feed will show the current alert level color and the new advisory indicator - To customize the feed to show specific fields, specify the URL parameter "keys" along with a list of the following items {level,color,description,advisoryalert,tip} Examples:
- text?keys=level,description - this feed will show the current alert level and the full description text
- text?keys=color,description - this feed will show the current alert color and the full description text
- text?keys=level,color,description - this feed will show the current alert level, color and the full description text
- text?keys=level,color,description,advisory alert,tip - this feed will show the current alert level, color, the full alert level description and a flag indicator if there is a new advisory and the Cyber Tip-of-the-Day Title
Note you can choose any combination of keys to use - you do not have to use them all