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OSSEC HIDS Host-Based Intrusion Detection Guide Book/DVD Package
This book is the definitive guide on the OSSEC Host-based Intrusion Detection system and frankly, to really use OSSEC you are going to need a definitive guide. Documentation has been available since the start of the OSSEC project but, due to time constraints, no formal book has been created to outline the various features and functions of the OSSEC
product. This has left very important and powerful features of the product undocumented...until now! The book you are holding will show you how to install and configure OSSEC on the operating system of your choice and provide detailed examples to help prevent and mitigate attacks on your systems. -- Stephen Northcutt OSSEC determines if a host has been compromised in this manner by taking the equivalent of a picture of the host machine in its original, unaltered state. This ?picture? captures the most relevant information about that machine?s configuration. OSSEC saves this ?picture? and then constantly compares it to the current state of that machine to identify anything that may have changed from the original configuration. Now, many of these changes are necessary, harmless, and authorized, such as a system administrator installing a new software upgrade, patch, or application. But, then there are the not-so-harmless changes, like the installation of a rootkit, trojan horse, or virus. Differentiating between the harmless and the not-so-harmless changes determines whether the system administrator or security professional is managing a secure, efficient network or a compromised network which might be funneling credit card numbers out to phishing gangs or storing massive amounts of pornography creating significant liability for that organization. Separating the wheat from the chaff is by no means an easy task. Hence the need for this book. The book is co-authored by Daniel Cid, who is the founder and lead developer of the freely available OSSEC host-based IDS. As such, readers can be certain they are reading the most accurate, timely, and insightful information on OSSEC.
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter will introduce you to the OSSEC project, its history, and its goals.
Chapter 2: Getting Started With OSSEC
This chapter provides an overview of the features of OSSEC including commonly used terminology, pre-install preparation, and deployment considerations.
Chapter 3: Installation
This chapter walks through the installation process for the "local" and "server" install types, including the Windows and Unix agent, and techniques to automate multiple agents installations.
Chapter 4: Configuration
This chapter discusses the post-install configuration of OSSEC. Within this chapter you learn how to monitor log files, remote messages, email notification, alerting levels, etc.
Chapter 5: Working With Log Analysis - Decoders
This chapter shows you how to extract key information from logs using decoders.
Chapter 6: Working With Log Analysis - Rule Files
This chapter discusses how you can leverage rules for various devices and how to write your own rules. It will include examples on how to parse atomic and composite rules, how to keep state between messages, remove false positives and tune it appropriately.
Chapter 7: Configuring System Integrity Check
This chapter explains the system integrity check features of OSSEC including monitoring of the binary executable files, system configuration files, and even the Windows registry.
Chapter 8: Rootkit Detection
This chapter explains the rootkit detection capabilities of OSSEC on Unix and its configuration.
Chapter 9: Policy Enforcement
This chapter explains the policy enforcement capabilities of OSSEC, explaining how to perform host-based system auditing and application monitoring.
Chapter 10: Active Response Configuration
This chapter explains how to configure the active response actions you want to configure as well as how to bind the actions to specific rules or events.
Chapter 11: Integration and Advanced Configuration
This chapter explains previously undocumented features, advanced configuration topics, and integration with third-party products.
Chapter 12: Using the Web interface
This chapter explains how to install and use the community developed, open source web interface, that is available for OSSEC.
Appendix A:
The Importance of Log Analysis
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