Open Source Security’s 2023 SWOT Analysis

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

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?  […]

Attend OSSEC Conference, February 7-10, 2023: Open Source Security, FIM, Malware Detection, and Training

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

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 […]

Tune In to OSSEC Conference 2021 – Featuring FIM, the Hottest Hits (Rust), and the Golden Oldies (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows End of Life)

Posted on by Mike Shinn

Webcasts and videos continue to bolster skills (watch this ‘hands-on’ professional… take an online guitar lesson, see how to fix your boat’s motor…), and it is no different in cybersecurity. Join Atomicorp and technology partners for OSSEC Conference 2021, where, in a four-day virtual conference, Open Source Security (OSSEC) will be discussed, analyzed, practiced, and […]

Announcing OSSEC Virtual Con2020

Posted on by Justin Countiss

Wednesday, June 24 & Thursday, June 25 Atomicorp is proud to host a fully virtual conference on Wednesday, June 24 and Thursday, June 25. The virtual conference is open to the OSSEC community to share technical insights, lessons learned, and best practices for OSSEC. See Full Schedule   Day 1 – Conference Sessions Conference topics […]

OSSEC Con Presentation: Adding a GUI to OSSEC

Posted on by Mike Shinn

One of the most common questions open source project manager Scott Shinn gets about OSSEC is: Is there a management console or GUI for OSSEC? The answer is not in a traditional sense. The command line interface is effective but does not provide log and event visualization. But the open-source security solution does allow users […]

Adding Elliptic Curve Noise Socket Crypto to Your OSSEC Deployment

Posted on by Mike Shinn

Dmitry Dain, co-founder and CTO of Virgil Security recently spoke at the OSSEC Conference 2018 about using encryption. In introducing Dmitry, OSSEC project manager Scott Shinn expressed the importance of the recent contributions by Virgil to the project. Scott pointed out that it has been a goal of the OSSEC contributors to update the crypto […]

OSSEC 3.0 Preview

Posted on by Mike Shinn

At the OSSEC Conference 2018 earlier this month, project manager Scott Shinn debuted OSSEC 3.0. Scott reviews what’s new with OSSEC, the changelog, the new GeoIP rules, provisioning automation, ELK stack integration and more. You can view the video of his full presentation below and download the conference presentation by clicking here.   To see […]