Articles in intrusion detection

  1. Monitoring Drupal with OSSEC - It is possible to monitor your Drupal site using OSSEC, the open source host based intrusion detection system, by implementing a custom decoder and a few simple rules.
  2. Monitoring Drupal for Insecure Settings - The Drupal content management system (CMS) is a wonderful for maintaining multiple, user driven and owned websites. From a security context, however, Drupal can present a challenge.
  3. Writing OSSEC Custom Rules and Decoders - By default OSSEC monitors many of the programs commonly installed on a machine, but it's real power comes from the ability of system administrators to customize OSSEC.
  4. OSSEC HIDS 1.6 Released - On September 1, OSSEC announced the release of the latest version of the OSSEC-HIDS tool (version 1.6).
  5. OSSEC Intrustion Detection System - OSSEC is an open source host based intrusion detection system (IDS). An IDS is one of the most important tools available to a security administrator.