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Open Source Security's Best Kept Secret

Posted by timothy on from the don't-tell-anyone-or-it-won't-be dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Prelude IDS Framework: "Open Source Security's Best Kept Secret" is an overview of the Prelude Project. The article touches upon the long list of devices and log types Prelude understands. As well as Prelude's ability to utilize patched versions of software like Snort, Nagios, Nessus, SamHain, etc. to all report to Prelude. There are also screen shots of two new front ends for Prelude (pylude and prewikka)."

9 comments

  1. Why don't they by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    develop a music player with voice recognition like WMP? Would help me to move from damn Windows.

    1. Re:Why don't they by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How about you get off teh spoke and code it yourself?

    2. Re:Why don't they by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I tried, but I haven't be able to find open source voice recognition coding software :(

      How can you code something like that without a VDE.

    3. Re:Why don't they by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      You missed step 1: get off teh spoke. Once you're no longer on teh spoke, you can code anything!

  2. And that secret is... by Neil+Blender · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ..that it's not as secure as we pretend it is.

  3. I use it. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have been nusing Prelude for a long time and it does what it does well. Its ability to patch and have Snort report to the manager is a big help when deploying many internal sensors. . .

  4. OSS' best kept secret? by Mr.+Piddle · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Hey, I heard that Linus is really a dude!

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  5. Impressive by Glamdrlng · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a very ambicious and laudable project. I remember reading about it a year ago ar so, but it looks like it's matured a lot since then.

    Since we now get to combat multi-headed worms, it's fitting that we now have a multi-headed IDS to work with.

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  6. Front page much? by Glamdrlng · · Score: 1

    Don't know if anyone will se this at this point, but why the hell wasn't this posted on the front page? It certainly seems newsworthy enough to make it up there to me. Who knows, maybe there actually could've been some worthwhile conversation about it...

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