OSSEC
| Developer(s) | Daniel B. Cid |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
2.8.3 / November 5, 2015
|
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Security / HIDS |
| License | GNU GPL v2 |
| Website | ossec.github.io |
OSSEC is a free, open-source host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS). It performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. It provides intrusion detection for most operating systems, including Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, OS X, Solaris and Windows. OSSEC has a centralized, cross-platform architecture allowing multiple systems to be easily monitored and managed.
In June 2008, the OSSEC project and all the copyrights owned by Cid, the project leader, were acquired by Third Brigade, Inc. They promised to continue to contribute to the open source community and to extend commercial support and training to the OSSEC open source community.
In May 2009, Trend Micro acquired Third Brigade and the OSSEC project, with promises to keep it open source and free.
It is compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements.
OSSEC consists of a main application, a Windows agent, and a web interface:
OSSEC has a log analysis engine that is able to correlate and analyze logs from multiple devices and formats. The following are currently supported:
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