These are some of the OSSEC-related articles writen by our community in the month of May, 2011. If you are writting or doing something related to OSSEC, send it to us (dcid@ossec.net) and we will include it in the next one.

• Improved reporting for file changes (syscheck) by Daniel Cid
• Emergency Phone Number Dialed (good use of OSSEC) by Michael Starks
• A request to cloud providers: Give us the logs By Gudado
• Encrypting OSSEC Alert Emails by Dan Parriott
• OSSEC speaks ArcSight by Xavier Mertens
• Using OSSEC for FIM (file integrity monitoring) by Steve R. Smith
• Protecting web servers with OSSEC by Treydock
• OSSEC training (pdf) by colorado.edu (don’t know the authors name)

That’s it. Some good reading for the weekend.