I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Detecting Undisclosed Vulnerabilities with Security Tools & Features“. I’m a big fan of OSSEC. This tools is an open source HIDS and log management tool. Although often considered as the “SIEM of the poor”, it integrates a lot of interesting features and is fully configurable
[This blogpost has also been published as a guest diary on isc.sans.org] When investigating incidents or searching for malicious activity in your logs, IP reputation is a nice way to increase the reliability of generated alerts. It can help to prioritize incidents. Let’s take an example with a WordPress blog. It will,
The SSL and TLS protocols have been on the front of the stage for months. Besides many vulnerabilities disclosed in the OpenSSL library, the deployment of SSL and TLS is not always easy. They are weak cyphers (like RC4), weak signatures, certificates issues (self-signed, expiration or fake ones). Other useful features are mis-understood
Just a link to my guest diary posted today on isc.sans.edu. I briefly introduced a method to perform permanent vulnerability scanning of newly detected hosts. The solution is based on OSSEC, ArpWatch and Nmap. The article is here.
For a while, malwares are in front of the security stage and the situation is unlikely to change in the coming months. When I give presentations about malwares, I always like to report two interesting statistics in my slides. They come from the 2012 Verizon DBIR: In 66% of investigated incidents,
The Amazon conference “re:Invent” is taking place in Las Vegas at the moment. For a while, I’m using the Amazon cloud services (EC2) mainly to run lab and research systems. Amongst the multiple announcements they already made during the conference, one of them caught my attention: “CloudTrail“. Everything has already
The guys from Packt Publishing asked me to review a new book from their “Instant” collection: “OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection“. This collection proposes books with less than 100 pages about multiple topics. The goal is to go straight forward to the topic. OSSEC being one of my favorite application, I
FIM or “File Integrity Monitoring” can be defined as the process of validating the integrity of operating system and applications files with a verification method using a hashing algorythm like MD5 or SHA1 and then comparing the current file state with a baseline. A hash will allow the detection of files content modification but
It looks that our beloved DNS protocol is again the center of interest for some security $VENDORS. For a while, I see more and more the expression “DNS Firewall” used in papers or presentations. It’s not a new buzz… The DNS protocol is well-known to be a excellent vector of
Implementing a good log management solution is not an easy task! If your organisation decides (should I add “finally“?) to deploy “tools” to manage your huge amount of logs, it’s a very good step forward but it must be properly addressed. Devices and applications have plenty of ways to generate
