OSSEC HIDS v1.6 released

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The OSSEC team is pleased to announce the general availability of OSSEC version 1.6.

OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring,
rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, *BSD, MacOS, Solaris and Windows.


This new version delivers the most comprehensive update to OSSEC in its history, with numerous new features and bug fixes, including:

* New multi-server architecture
* New platform support for Microsoft Vista (and Server 2008)
* New platform support for VMware ESX
* Added active response module for Windows
* CIS benchmarks on Linux (through the policy auditing)
* Added the VMWare Security hardening guideline to the policy auditing
* Added support for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise logs
* Added support for VMware ESX hostd logs
* Added support for Mac OS FTP server logs
* New tools to better manage the data stored (syscheck_control, rootcheck_control, log_test)

And much more… 


More information:
http://www.ossec.net/main/ossec-v16-released

Download it from: 
http://www.ossec.net/main/downloads . 


Thanks,

--
Daniel B. Cid
dcid ( at ) ossec.net

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