5 Ways to Get More Out of an OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS)

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

By Atomicorp  (Get more out of your OSSEC intrusion detection … not just rules and basic detection. With Atomic OSSEC, you get professional support, installation and configuration assistance, multiple threat feeds, vulnerability intelligence, active response (HIPS), FIM, SCAP and CIS compliance tools, web based graphical analysis, and more.)   Free open-source software and free security […]

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Tools and HIDS – the Foundation for Security and Compliance in a Cloudy World

Posted on by Mike Shinn

File integrity monitoring (FIM) tools and a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) are the foundation for security and compliance, including NIST, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and more. HIDS (host-based intrusion detection system) is a security system that monitors the computing devices on which it is installed, the traffic between devices, the containers on the device, and that […]

Meet PCI-DSS and Compliance Requirements With File Integrity Monitoring Tools (FIM) From Atomicorp

Posted on by Mike Shinn

(File integrity monitoring tools are crucial for meeting security and compliance requirements, but they’re also critical to answering the most important question when something happens: What changed? The following blog and FIM whitepaper explore compliance challenges and empowering agents such as FIM.) Compliance challenges. Manually going through logs. Auditing. Tired human eyes missing evidence of […]

Podcast: What is OSSEC and Why People Use It

Posted on by Mike Shinn

OSSEC, which is short for open source security, was founded in 2004. It is an open source project for cybersecurity and delivers the most robust endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities available to enterprises today. Scott Shinn, OSSEC project manager, introduced its most recent update to 3.0 at the OSSEC conference this past April. In […]

Improving OSSEC Manageability, Security, and Compliance with Atomic Enterprise OSSEC

Posted on by Mike Shinn

With more than 500,000 downloads per year and hundreds of thousands of active installs, OSSEC is the world’s most widely used open source host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS).  OSSEC is used by organizations in virtually every industry and geography to meet critical security and compliance requirements both on-premise and in the cloud. The open source […]