DK 'Log

A friend of mine is preparing a speech at a security conference this summer around OSSIM. He asked if I could get some feedback, case-studies or anything that could backup and enrichen his speech, this is what this post is for :-).

So please, should you have anything (wether it's good or bad, happy or sad) to say around OSSIM (or should you know about anybody how does) which you would like to share write to feedback@ (created the alias so I wouldn't miss anything, feedback is very important to us).

Anything from "I use OSSIM" to complete papers is welcome, tho in order to avoid confusions I'd please ask to include these couple of lines at the beginning of the mail:

Name (leave empty for anonymous):
Company (leave empty for anonymous or substitute for "english university" or "canadian oil platform" or similar):
Is it ok to tell/foward this?: yes/no (if the answer is 'no' then no one but me will know about this :P)
Is it ok to publish this on ossim.net/alienvault.com?: yes/no

Here again for copy & paste:

Name:
Company:
Ok to tell/forward?:
Ok to publish on ossim.net/alienvault.com?:

I'm happy to announce the availability of the next beta, AV Installer beta6. (md5: 21204ecf2949a1d9ac9838b3c694b72d.

Again, thanks a ton to everybody testing the betas and reporting bugs / improvements, with your help this is already the best release that's been published ever for OSSIM.

The betatesting process is reaching the point where we're going to freeze code and just fix bugs. OpenVAS is now fully integrated and running like a charm, the compliance framework runs out of te box for ISO27001 (install beta6, "apt-get install ossim-compliance" and go to reports->reporting server), many new directives have been added and old ones fixed. A quick warning: OpenVAS takes ages to start the first time, if it looks like it hangs during init don't worry, after maybe 5 or 10 minutes it will get through.

Next steps will be to ensure everything is working, get a new dashboard for PCI and ISO2700[12] compliance, integrate the SEM part (without signing) into the public server, put the new policy interface in place and double check distributed architecture scripts. After this release the final version, throw a party and get a couple of weeks off ;-)

I hope you enjoy this beta.