OSSEC v2.8 Copyright (C) 2014 Trend Micro Inc.

Information about OSSEC

OSSEC is a full platform to monitor and control your systems. It mixes together all the aspects of HIDS (host-based intrusion detection), log monitoring and SIM/SIEM together in a simple, powerful and open source solution.

Visit our website for the latest information. www.ossec.net

Current Releases

The current stable releases are available on the ossec website.

• Releases can be downloaded from: Downloads
• Release documentation is available at: docs

Development

The development version are hosted on Github and just a simple git clone away.

Quick install

# (cd /tmp/ && wget http://www.ossec.net/files/ossec-hids-2.7.1.tar.gz  && tar xfz ossec-hids-2.7.1.tar.gz && cd ossec-hids-2.7.1 && sudo ./install.sh )

Then follow the prompts. You should still Read the Documenation here.

Credits and Thanks

• OSSEC comes with a modified version of zlib and a small part of openssl (sha1 and blowfish libraries)
• This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).
• This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
• This product include software developed by the zlib project (Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler).
• This product include software developed by the cJSON project (Dave Gamble)