Building a Logging Forensics Platform using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Posted on by David Vassallo

During a recent project we were required to build a "Logging Forensics Platform", which is in essence a logging platform that can consume data from a variety of sources such as windows event logs, syslog, flat files and databases. The platform would then be used for queries during forensic investigations and to help follow up … Continue reading Building a Logging Forensics Platform using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Bringing reliability to OSSEC

Posted on by David Vassallo

As we saw in a previous blog post, OSSEC is UDP based. This is great for performance, and can scale to 1000s of nodes. However, it means there is an inherent problem of reliability. UDP is a connection-less protocol, hence the OSSEC agent has no guaranteed way of knowing that a particular event has been … Continue reading Bringing reliability to OSSEC