Used by more than 10,000 organizations around the world, OSSEC has provided an open source alternative for host-based intrusion detection for more than 10 years. From Fortune 10 enterprises to ...

I use OSSEC pretty regularly on Linux and Windows servers. It is incredibly useful because of its ability to parse and correlate a large number of log formats, as well as granularly react to logs ...

Last week I wrote a post taking to task Steve Chang, the chairman of security company Trend Micro. Chang made a statement to the effect open source was inherently less secure than non-open ...

If you don’t have a lot of budget at your disposal, these open-source intrusion detection tools are worth a look. As businesses grapple with the pandemic, millions of workers are no longer working in ...

Information overload is one of information security professionals' biggest enemies: The job of sorting through and making sense of event data, and then acting on it in a timely manner, is crucial. A ...

An intrusion detection software basically checks for changes made by unwanted programs that could be injected into your systems by cybercriminals. All of them study the data packets—incoming and ...