I’m currently attending the Hashdays security conference in Lucerne (Switzerland). Yesterday I attended a first round of talks (the management session). Amongst all the interesting presentations, Alexander Kornbrust got my attention with his topic: “Self-Defending Databases“. Alexander explained how databases can be configured to detect suspicious queries and prevent attacks. Great
Tag: OSSEC
Attackers Geolocation in OSSEC
If you follow my blog on a regularly basis, you probably already know that I’m a big fan of OSSEC. I’m using it to monitor all my personal systems (servers, labs, websites, etc). Being a day-to-day user, I have always new ideas to extend the product , by using 3rd
Monitor your Monitoring Tools
We (and I’m fully part of it) deploy and use plenty of security monitoring tools daily. As our beloved data is often spread across complex infrastructures or simply across multiple physical locations, we have to collect interesting information and bring them in a central place for further analysis. That’s called
Monitoring pastebin.com within your SIEM
For those who (still) don’t know pastebin.com, it’s a website mainly for developers. Its purpose is very simple: You can “paste” text on the website to share it with other developers, friends, etc. You paste it, optionally define an expiration date, if it’s public or private data and your are
Vulnerability Management: OSSEC & Secunia PSI
“Vulnerability Management“… This is an important topic for your corporate security. One of the steps in this process is the monitoring of your applications and operating systems. With hundreds (thousands?) of devices connected to your network, how to keep an eye on the applications and patches installed on all of
Detecting Defaced Websites with OSSEC
In the scope of the OSSEC Week, here is a quick contribution which can greatly help you to monitor suspicious changes on a website. Today, your corporate website is the very first contact you have with your customers, partners, press, etc. It’s your window to the world. Nobody can pretend
Mapping OSSEC Alerts with AfterGlow
This week is the third annual OSSEC week! A good initiative to promote this open source log management solution. This post is my first contribution to the OSSEC community, I hope to publish more posts if I’ve enough time. OSSEC is a excellent tool to collect and analyze the events
Feeding DShield with OSSEC Logs
The primary goal of a log management solution is to receive events from multiple sources, to parse and to make them available for multiple purposes: searching, alerting and reporting. But why not send some interesting events to another log management system or application? Usually, some inputs are added in the
OSSEC Speaks “ArcSight”
Log management… A hot topic! There are plenty of solutions to manage your logs. Like in all IT domains, there are two major categories: free and commercial tools. Both have pro and cons. No big debate here, contrariwise I’ll show you a good example of a mix between both worlds.
My OSSEC DashBoard
For a while, I was looking for a good solution to display my OSSEC server status in (near) real time. For most of us, the classic log file monitoring tool still remains based on the “tail | grep | awk | less” commands. If it catches perfectly the events you