In this tutorial, you will learn how to install OSSEC server and OSSEC agent on Alibaba CloudElastic Compute Service(ECS) instances installed with Ubuntu 16.04. Requirements Two newly created ECS instances installed with Ubuntu 16.04, one for OSSEC server, and the other for OSSEC agent. A static...
OSSEC can be installed to monitor just the server it is installed on, which is a local installation in OSSEC parlance. The two previous tutorials on OSSEC are examples of local OSSEC installations:How To Install and Configure OSSEC Security Notifications on Ubuntu 14.04andHow To Insta...
Install OSSEC-HIDS from sources sudo apt install -y libz-dev libssl-dev libpcre2-dev build-essential libsystemd-dev wget https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/archive/3.7.0.tar.gz tar xzf 3.7.0.tar.gz cd ossec-hids-3.7.0/ sudo ./install.sh Useful commands: ...
An example of an application that sends email notifications is OSSEC, which will send email alerts to any configured email address (seeHow To Install and Configure OSSEC Security Notifications on Ubuntu 14.04). Though OSSEC or any other application of its kind can use a thi...
A Linux endpoint running Ubuntu 22.04. Configuration Configure the Wazuh server Here we configure the Wazuh server to receive and analyze logs from remote endpoints. 1. Append the following remote block to the/var/ossec/etc/ossec.confconfiguration file: ...
To enable OpenLDAP audit logging, you need to of course have an OpenLDAP server running. You can check our previous articles on how to install and setup OpenLDAP server; Install and Setup OpenLDAP server on Ubuntu 22.04 Install and Setup OpenLDAP Server on Debian 11 ...
This simple tutorial will show you how to get byte count in a file in Linux. Byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
OSSEC allows you to install the agent on the guest operating systems or inside the host (Vmware ESX). With the agent installed inside the VMware ESX you cangetalerts about when a VM guestisbeing installed, removed, started, etc. It also monitors logins, logouts and errors inside the ESX...
Keep in mind doing this means you can't use the key for automation because you'll have no way to send the passphrase in your scripts. ssh-agent is a program that is shipped in many Linux distros (and usually already running) that will allow you to hold your unencrypted priv...
Install OSSEC-HIDS from sources sudo apt install -y libz-dev libssl-dev libpcre2-dev build-essential libsystemd-dev wget https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/archive/3.7.0.tar.gz tar xzf 3.7.0.tar.gz cd ossec-hids-3.7.0/ sudo ./install.sh Useful commands: ...