Ossec Reviews & Product Details

The highly active community maintaining and support the product, as well as the price! The community around OSSEC is highly active on forums and other sites and more than willing to help with any configuration issues that come up. Also, OSSEC maintains regular to fix bugs and improve features. Since there is a very high cost associated with other commercial products in the same space, many other companies seem to have also decided to invest resources in this excellent open source product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The high configuration overhead of the system. Be ready to have engineers spend time to debug and validate the configurations and systems that are a part the system. As with any open source system, sometimes the documentation and other internet research tend to lead down the wrong path. Having quality engineers be able to handle, maintain, test the configs are a ciritical part of making OSSEC work in production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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.

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.

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.

– 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.

- 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.

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

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.

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.

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

File integrity monitoring

Logs review

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

web ui need to improve

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.