open source HIPS/HIDS soultion that can send logs to Security Onion?

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Anoop Perayil

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Feb 11, 2016, 7:38:56 AM2/11/16
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Hi All, I am trying to find an open source HIPS/HIDS solution for AWS cloud that can send logs to SO. anyone tried anything like this?

Doug Burks

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Feb 11, 2016, 7:48:41 AM2/11/16
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Hi Anoop,

Have you considered OSSEC? You can install OSSEC agents on your AWS
instances and have them send logs to the OSSEC server on your Security
Onion box.

https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/OSSEC

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> Hi All, I am trying to find an open source HIPS/HIDS solution for AWS cloud that can send logs to SO. anyone tried anything like this?
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Anoop Perayil

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Feb 11, 2016, 9:21:45 AM2/11/16
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Hi Dough,

Thanks for the quick response, I have been thinking about OSSEC but have the following doubts -
what will be the resource overhead on the the AWS server instances?
can we run Security Onion on a dedicated AWS instance with only HIPS/HIDS monitoring?
finally I am planning to send info from the Security Onion to another centralized SIEM

Regards,
Anoop

Doug Burks

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Feb 11, 2016, 9:55:13 AM2/11/16
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Replies inline.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Anoop Perayil <urdud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dough,
>
> Thanks for the quick response, I have been thinking about OSSEC but have the following doubts -
> what will be the resource overhead on the the AWS server instances?

The OSSEC agent is very lightweight.

> can we run Security Onion on a dedicated AWS instance with only HIPS/HIDS monitoring?

Yes, when you run Setup, choose Production Mode and then Master-only.
That will disable all network sniffing.

> finally I am planning to send info from the Security Onion to another centralized SIEM

Please see:
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/ThirdPartyIntegration

Anoop Perayil

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Feb 12, 2016, 6:03:45 AM2/12/16
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Hi Dough,

Let me go through it, 'll keep you posted on how it goes.

Regards,
Anoop

Anoop Perayil

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Feb 17, 2016, 4:00:20 AM2/17/16
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On Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:25:13 UTC+5:30, Doug Burks wrote:
> Replies inline.
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Anoop Perayil <urdud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Dough,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response, I have been thinking about OSSEC but have the following doubts -
> > what will be the resource overhead on the the AWS server instances?
>
> The OSSEC agent is very lightweight.
>
> > can we run Security Onion on a dedicated AWS instance with only HIPS/HIDS monitoring?
>
> Yes, when you run Setup, choose Production Mode and then Master-only.
> That will disable all network sniffing.
>
> > finally I am planning to send info from the Security Onion to another centralized SIEM
>
> Please see:
> https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/ThirdPartyIntegration
>
> Hi Dough,

Thanks to your tutorials, I setup SO with only OSSEC, but now I have realized that I need more than just log analysis, I will have to see connections established on host level and maybe pcap traffic from the host as well. Is there any host agent that can do that on a host level? AWS has a lot of restrictions on sniffing into the networks traffic.

Thanks in advance,
Anoop

Doug Burks

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Feb 17, 2016, 6:24:02 AM2/17/16
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Anoop Perayil <urdud...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dough,

Please note it's "Doug" not "Dough" :)

> Thanks to your tutorials, I setup SO with only OSSEC, but now I have realized that I need more than just log analysis, I will have to see connections established on host level and maybe pcap traffic from the host as well. Is there any host agent that can do that on a host level? AWS has a lot of restrictions on sniffing into the networks traffic.

https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/CloudClient


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Anoop Perayil

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Feb 17, 2016, 12:10:07 PM2/17/16
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Hi Doug,

I am terribly sorry about that, I would blame it on auto-correct.
Thanks for the wiki, at first glance seems to be a bit complicated, will get back to you once I have a go at it.

Regards,
Anoop

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