Download or read book Affordable OS Security Package with OSSEC (Open Source HIDS Security) written by Anthony Egbujor and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security is a critical system used as the primary defender of an organization's infrastructure. One of the Cyber and Information Security team's jobs is to fight, defend and monitor all weak points and vulnerabilities in an organization's system or server. Comprehensive security allows companies to work at maximum efficiency, without needing to worry if their systems are vulnerable to attacks. OSSEC (Open Source HIDS Security) is an open-source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that allows the user to "perform log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response" [1], and prevent minor and medium-scale cyber attacks from infiltrating and harming the system. OSSEC was founded in 2004 by Daniel Cid as an Open Source Intrusion Detection System with the ability to parse, analyze and simplify auditable logs. This project, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Cybersecurity, examines the capabilities of OSSEC on a business-level system. Using a simulation created to represent a city government computer system, I will go into detail about OSSEC and how it can effectively protect a system. This project will detail the services and software used to create the security package, including, but not limited to: OSSEC, Splunk, Tenable, Webmin, and Ansible. The goal of this project is to show the strengths and weaknesses of a free/affordable enterprise-level Intrusion Detection System.