Employ real time file integrity monitoring (FIM) to meet always-on security requirements as well as data protection compliance standards such as PCI DSS. Cyberattacks can be sneaky fast, executing their programs, altering your files and source code, and deleting traces of the activity. Many file integrity monitoring (FIM) programs run on a timer based model, […]
Free and open source Linux runs servers, desktop distributions, commercial mobile devices such as Android and Nokia, and virtualized server environments like Kubernetes clusters and containers. Linux even runs supercomputing. Accordingly, Linux skills are in high demand, both for software application development and for API and kernel level security. Whether you’re a do–it-yourself open source […]
By Scott Shinn (This article and video demonstration show how to orchestrate additional security and compliance controls to your AIX environments.) AIX is a well-embedded operating system that has persisted 37 years and remains popular today. Technically not a legacy product, AIX is still commercially supported. IBM owns AIX, as well as Red Hat and […]
By Scott Shinn What’s the difference between OSSEC, OSSEC+, and Atomic OSSEC? We get asked that a lot. The quick answer is thousands of additional open source security rules, frequent updates and software integrations for real-time endpoint and cloud workload detection, built-in active response beyond HIDS, a graphical user interface (GUI), compliance capabilities, and expert […]
By Scott Shinn Ghidra is an open source reverse engineering tool developed by the NSA. Four years mature, Ghidra is a solid tool that can be used to disable attacks at the root, enabling you to take the malware apart and build immunities. It’s reverse engineering via an open source tool today. At the February […]
What is a WAF versus a firewall? . . . and why should IT security departments spin web application firewalls (WAFs) across the web and cloud workload architecture? Consider the ubiquitous web attacks testing your servers and APIs all day long, looking for ways into your digital enterprise and its information. It’s a constant and […]
By Paul Veeneman Editor’s Note: Paul Veeneman (CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CMMC-RP) is a cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance professional with 27 years of experience providing knowledge and guidance across various verticals and critical infrastructure. The following article is an abstract from his guest presentation at Atomic OSSEC Conference 2023. Why open source software and security? […]
Open source software is flexible and free, enabling DevSecOps-oriented IT organizations to get more out of the software without having to wait for commercial vendor developments and updates. Open source software provides the fabric and foundation for Red Hat middleware, Kubernetes container environments, as well as application cluster deployments. It is also commonly used to […]
Comprising more than half of all cyberattacks, file-based attacks (.DOCX, .pdf, etc.) enable malware to spread into other files and across different systems. These attacks can be sophisticated, able to use deception to take path-traversal courses to get at sensitive data or spread silently, closing portals and deleting files behind them to hide their presence. […]
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 […]