On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 9:08 PM <imthenacho...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Fail2ban can monitor application logs, like Apache, for potential intrusion 
> attempts and block the offending IPs.
>

Yeah, and OSSEC can do that too.

> So basically keep PSAD, Fail2Ban, rkhunter and chkrootkit and just replace 
> AIDE with OSSEC.
>
> An reason you still prefer OSSEC over AIDE if it has more features?
>

I haven't looked into aide recently enough to remember why I preferred OSSEC.

> On Monday, March 25, 2019 at 8:00:39 AM UTC-4, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 8:24 AM <imthen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Based on what I am reading, I would replace AIDE, PSAD, Fail2Ban, rkhunter 
>> > and chkrootkit with OSSEC. Is my understanding correct?
>> >
>> > And then, if I am using UFW, I would have to update OSSEC to ban IPs 
>> > through UFW instead of through iptables directly.
>> >
>> > So then all I would need is UFW, OSSEC, and ClamAV (for AV).
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>>
>> OSSEC does similar things to aide. I prefer OSSEC, but aide does have
>> some features OSSEC does not (more hash algorithms).
>> OSSEC does not monitor the network, so probably can't replace psad.
>> Depending on the logs psad produces, you might be able to read them
>> with OSSEC.
>> I don't know of any features fail2ban has that OSSEC doesn't, but I
>> also haven't looked into it very much.
>> rkhunter and chkrootkit probably have newer/more up to date databases
>> than OSSEC does.
>>
>> If you're using ufw, you will have to update the scripts. I don't see
>> any ufw mentions in the current scripts with a quick grep.
>> Updates to the script to support ufw might be useful for the entire
>> project too (possible easy contribution).
>>
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