Network and Computer Security

I’ve already featured some tools here like Nmap, OSSEC and Honeytrap, but I’m not talking about security tools nearly enough.

So this time let me introduce you to OSSIM. OSSIM stands for Open Source Security Information Management and aims to unify network monitoring, security, correlation, and qualification in one single tool. It combines Snort, Acid, MRTG, NTOP, OpenNMS, nmap, nessus and rrdtool to provide the user with full control over every aspect of networking or security. It has always been long and painfull to install and maintain many security tools at once and OSSIM allows to benefit from the best security tools in an easy and integrated way.
OSSIM has been under heavy development for a few years now and the last release (0.9.9rc2) is much easier to install than the previous versions.

If you’re in doubt you can get a feel at how it looks by looking at those OSSIM screenshots.

Links:

• OSSIM homepage
• Download OSSIM