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When: January 18, 2012 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: Security with Snort and OSSEC Moderator: Chris O'Connell Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325 Summary Chris discusses host and network intrusion detection using Snort and OSSEC Abstract Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching, and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. OSSEC: http://www.ossec.net/ Snort: http://www.snort.org/ For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site http://www.blu.org Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51 parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St. After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting location at The Cambridge Brewing Company http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/ -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce at blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
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