On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Alessandro Di Giuseppe <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Having dabbled in SELinux configuration, and running OSSEC for several
> months now here is my advice:
> start with OSSEC first, as it is easier to implement and IMHO provides far
> more visibility, and therefore value.
>

So if this is the case, is there overlap between the two? Should I not
consider SELinux or some other comparable technology?


> SELinux requires careful testing to make sure it wont break
> anything. Start gradually with "Permissive" mode (logging only - unlike the
> "Enforcing" which blocks stuff ) and carefully analyze your logs before
> considerring "Enforcing" mode. I also reccomend you use the "Targeted"
> policy which will only act on daemons it knows, whereas "Strict" will block
> anything it doesn't know.
>

This might answer my question above but I just wanted to be clear, it seems
that ossec will pick up on these logs and alert?

 And thanks for the URL's

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