AlienVault Community Overview

OSSIM is the de facto standard Open Source SIEM. The goal of AlienVault's OSSIM is to provide a comprehensive compilation of tools that work together to provide a detailed view over each and every aspect of your networks, hosts, physical access devices, server, etc.

Besides getting the most out of well known open source tools, some of which are briefly described below, OSSIM provides a strong correlation engine, detailed low, medium and high level visualization interfaces, and reporting and incident management tools, based on a set of defined assets such as hosts, networks, groups and services.

All of this information can be restricted by network or sensor in order to provide only the required information to specific users; allowing for a fine grained multi–user security environment. Finally, the ability to perform as an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System), using correlated information from virtually any source, will be a useful addition to any security professional’s arsenal.

For the GIS project also named OSSIM, see Open Source Software Image Map.