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OSSEC
Developer(s)
Daniel B. Cid et al.
Stable release
3.7.0[1]
/ 17 January 2022; 2 years ago (17 January 2022)
Repository
github.com/ossec/ossec-hids
Written in
C
Operating system
Cross-platform
Type
Security / HIDS
License
GNU GPL v2
Website
www.ossec.net
OSSEC (Open Source HIDS SECurity) 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.[2] OSSEC has a log analysis engine that is able to correlate and analyze logs from multiple devices and formats.[3]
^"Release 3.7.0". 17 January 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
^"About". OSSEC Project Team. 2017. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
^"Log Samples". OSSEC Project Team. 2017. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
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