Kanvas

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A desktop case management tool for security incident response that tracks systems, timelines, indicators and lateral movement during an investigation.

Adopt it when

A small DFIR team wants a structured alternative to tracking investigations in spreadsheets.

Watch out

Pre-1.0, GPL licensed, and quiet since April 2026.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Desktop app

Built with

Python and pandas

How established

Young: started 16 months ago, latest release v0.4.7.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Kanvas → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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