====== OSSEC ======

**OSSEC** is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System.

It mixes together all the aspects of HIDS (host-based intrusion detection) and Security Incident Management (SIM)/Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) together in a simple, powerful, and open source solution.

OSSEC’s key benefits are:

  * Compliance Requirements
  * Multi platform
  * Real-time and Configurable Alerts
  * Integration with current infrastructure
  * Centralized management
  * Agent and agentless monitoring

OSSEC performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

To check the operating systems and log formats that OSSEC supports, please visit their [[http://ossec-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/supported-systems.html#supported-systems|page]].

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