DK 'Log

School year is starting again and so were I feeling too after coming back from the beach :-). Relax time is over tho and there's a lot of exciting stuff going on around AlienVault/OSSIM.

First of all I'd like to mention our new look&feel. After releasing 2.1 we decided the web should be undergoing a long-needed revamp, so here it is. As you may have noticed too, we unified the looks of the original ossim.net site and integrated it into the community section, very much like MySQL does (was inspired on them actually).

Another important addition is the new Roadmap. Now that we're becoming a serious project with a serious company behind, we've got to take care of things like these which we might have neglected in the past.
You'll see that the next major release, 2.2, is scheduled for the 15th of February 2010. We're already working on the items planned for that, and I wanted to share a quick screenshot of what will be the unified report for hosts and networks. Basically you'll be able to right click on any host anywhere on the system and get out a quick overview of anything that the system knows about it. Here are two quick screenshots (work in progress ofc):

Anyway, this is just one of the many improvements there will be, so stay tuned...

Now comes the shameless plug. As part of the website redesign we also started to launch the online courses and training at elearning.alienvault.com. Right now there are only two courses available, the "OSSIM Essentials" and "Build your own plugin" ones. If this initiative succeeds we'll continue to invest into it and prepare all the others, which in the end should cover all the material covered by the presential courses.
Prices are really cheap for promotion, 50 euro for around 3 or 4 hours worth of training, and although I'm biased I think they really do a good job in introducing OSSIM to those who're new to it, even if they're lacking deep computer or security skills.
So, if yuou're interested or know someone who could be, please give it a try. It's worth the money, we put a ton of work into it and it will help support your favourite SIM *grin*.

And here ends the plug and the post. I'm working right now on a plugin wizard which I'll be talking about soon. Once finished it will raise the amount of plugins available for OSSIM by around 2000 ;-)