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What do you like best about Ossec?

It is open source based and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

We have to build our own rpm packages so we can use ossec on centos or rhel based systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ossec:

Ossec is a good and easy start for security compliance when you want to deploy log analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

Log analysis and file integrity checking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ossec Overview

What is Ossec?

Ossec is an open source host-based intrusion detection system that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection and process monitoring.

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Ossec is an open source host-based intrusion detection system that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection and process monitoring.


Seller Details
Seller
Ossec
Year Founded
2012
HQ Location
Mannouba, Tunis
Twitter
@ossecproject
1,680 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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19 employees on LinkedIn®

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Ossec g2 recommend"
It is open source based and easy to use.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Increase security and good log monitor on windows and check registry"
– Agent runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS this is amazing – Server and agent communicates via encrypted messages increase security comunication - C...
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Open source FIM tool"
File integrity monitoring Logs review Attacks identification
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What do you like best about Ossec?

This tool gives us the ability to monitor our point of sale systems for intrusion and log this important data in order to remain in compliance with PCI-DSS standards. The ideal aspects of this tool are that you can easily deploy this to many clients and manage the monitoring for these clients centrally on the server. The best part is this software is free and open source. So all you have to supply is the hardware required to run this virtually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

There isn’t a dashboard for this software. There used to be long ago when it was originally developed. Unfortunately there aren’t many options for data visualization, so you’re relying on email notification and log files on the server to look into potential threats. There was a plug-in for Splunk, but with recent version of OSSEC it appears that it’s no longer supported. Supposedly you can do some visualization with Loki, Prometheus, and Grafana (other open source tools). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ossec:

As long as you’re okay with creating your own dashboard or using the command line to view logging, then it’s an excellent product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

The only issues we’ve had is the lack of a dashboard. Otherwise the product functions as it should. The benefits of the product were simply that it gives us some visibility into potential threats on point of sale machines and makes us compliant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ossec?

This is an easy to install login monitoring tool , which is very helpful for all organization for intrusion detection and log analysis, as a personal user of this tool, i like all the features this tool provides Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

i personally doesn't feel any dislike or drawback for this tool because being an opensource tool it provides all features as a security professional needs, only thing have to focus more is to implement a User- interface for this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ossec:

Currenly ossec is doing great job as ann open-source tool, in future please implement User interface too, it will be more helpful for professionals or individual who doesnt familar with command line Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a Security company , We have to first protect our networks from malicious intruders, this tool basically helps us for log analysis and host-based intrusion detection as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ossec?

– Agent runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS this is amazing

– Server and agent communicates via encrypted messages increase security comunication

- Can be integrated with Slack and PagerDuty for alerting

- Can be integrated with ELK Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

- Upgrade system. The upgrade is very painful

- When you upgrade the old rule will disappear for default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ossec:

Please improve the upgrade system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

Checking my authentication logs and sent the same to the ELK System.

Putting Firewall (CheckPoint) logs in ELK system with Dashboards and real time monitor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ossec?

Log Management, Rules syntax, the detection mechanism of the OSSEC are very great and it made me learn more about IDPS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

There is no Metrics Dashboard to moniter the events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

user monitoring, file system modifications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ossec?

File integrity monitoring

Logs review

Attacks identification Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

web ui need to improve

windows agent should be more effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

file integrity

logs

attacks

scanning preventions etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ossec?

I like the file modification monitoring. It can do hashes of files like tripwire and periodically checks the files for modification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

The management is very command line oriented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ossec:

This is a low cost and effective file integrity monitoring tool. It also can do various levels of host level protection including log monitoring, root kit checks and active responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

File integrity monitoring is what we use it for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose Antonio B.
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What do you like best about Ossec?

i like the easy way to configure ossec, and how it helps to monitoring and keep tracking of everything on a server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

i would like to have an easy deployment in linux like the windows deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ossec:

its easy to deploy and its open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

log management, log analysis, its pretty good tool to monitoring your servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jean F.
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What do you like best about Ossec?

First that is an open source project! Second is how the product interacts with my servers, protecting and alarming at every time something or someone does wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ossec?

The web interface is no longer maintained so at the moment, there's no web interface. But you always send your data to Kibana and have graphs available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ossec:

Use and install in all your servers and workstations, get all the logs needed in a central location! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ossec solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're solving security problems by using OSSEC as our Intrusion Detection System. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.