SIM CD is OSSIM and other various open source security applications included on a preconfigured CentOS Distribution. The CD is bootable and significantly reduces the complexity of OSSIM and OS Installation, Configuration, & Deployment.
Installing SIM CD is as easy as putting the CD into the computer and rebooting. SIM CD is an unattended install. Upon reboot, SIM CD automatically installs the operating system, various other components, and OSSIM. Only the IP Address and root password need be configured after installation.
Every security application on SIM CD is preconfigured to support OSSIM. They are configured using industry-recognized best practices. The configuration is for on a stand-alone installation. This stand-alone installation uses a number of security applications. These are listed in the Features section below. All of these applications run on one computer. This is intended to support small networks with little traffic.
SIM CD may be installed in a distributed configuration; information on how to do this is available in the installation manual that Lomin Security ships with purchased CDs.
Features
SIM CD is built on CentOS and includes the following core applications:
- Spade: network anomaly detection
- Snort: pattern matching intrusion detection system
- Acid: log viewer (Event Database)
- Ntop: network use monitor
- Mrtg: graphing
- Mysql: data storage
- RRDtool: a system to store and display time-series data
- Nessus: vulnerability assessment
- Nmap: Network discovery
To view the SIM CD messageboard, visit the SIM CD Forums
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