All tools / Detection engineering
OSSEC
Open ossec/ossec-hids on GitHub
Repository description, written by its ownerOSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.
Active last commit yesterday
Commits in 23 of the last 52 weeks
- Category
- Detection engineering
- Subcategory
- Endpoint Monitoring
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Latest release
- Release 4.4.1, Oct 18, 2026 (signature file included)
- Stars
- 5.1K
- GitHub repository id
- 12901559
- Listed in
- awesome-threat-detection (CC0-1.0)
- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
Security advisories
The maintainers have not published any security advisories on GitHub. Vulnerabilities reported only elsewhere, for example in the NVD, are not included.
Changes seen by hackshelf
- Oct 19, 2026 First checked, status Active