LinuxWorld released the article Top 5 open source security tools in the enterprise and OSSEC was chosen number 1.
With thousands of open source security packages available, choices can be confusing. Here’s the short list of tools that are getting real-world successful deployments.
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I’ve selected OSSEC HIDS as the No. 1 open source tool due to its recent rapid growth in the enterprise. OSSEC HIDS is a rapidly evolving open source project that offers the first ever open source host intrusion detection and prevention system, developed by Daniel Cid. The OSSEC HIDS project has been gaining widespread use and is quickly being deployed within organizations around the world as a method of protecting systems at the host level after attacks have made it past network defenses.The OSSEC HIDS project team has ported the tool to all major operating system platforms including Windows, MacOSX, HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux.
Full article here.


2 responses so far ↓
Chris Meese // Sep 8, 2007 at 6:44 pm
I have been reviewing this software for several months and it has been surprisingly effective. I offer great compliments to the developers.
admin // Mar 5, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the compliments in name of the ossec team.
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Daniel B. Cid
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