On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jason Frisvold <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vic Hargrave wrote:
>> I have been working on decoders and rules to process Hadoop logs which I
>> wrote a blog about:<shameless-plug>
>> http://vichargrave.com/securing-hadoop-with-ossec/ </shameless-plug>.
>>  I'd like to share these rules with the community as I comne up with
>> more and expand into other big data platforms - cassandra, mongodb,
>> etc..  However these rules are not for everybody and are still a work in
>> progress, so I'm loath to put them into the rules set in the ossec-hids.
>
> The default ossec ruleset should be minimalistic and only include
> rulesets that apply widely across many installations.
>
>> I'm thinking about creating an ossec-rules repo on OSSEC Github site
>> that would serve as a place to collect rules like this that have a
>> limited audience.  From here people could grab them and use them if
>> interested or even fork the repo and add new rules or revisions.
>
> This has come up in the last week or so.  I *think* the official
> maintainers are looking at setting something up like this as well.  It
> might speed things up a bit if someone else were to start the process?
> Or maybe it might muddy the waters a bit.  Devs?
>

I was thinking we were going to do this after 2.8 was out the door.
Nothing is really stopping it from happening sooner though.

>> One problem with this that I can see is keeping the rule ids for new
>> rules unique.  We'd have to figure out how to set aside rule id ranges
>> that would serve as namespaces or at least log the ids used by people as
>> they add rules.  If we do this we should have a well maintained READ me
>> that identifies the rule ID ranges and what they do.
>
> AND there should be a clear rule for custom rules as well.  For
> instance, on my own installation, I take the existing rule numbers and
> add 100,000 to them.  This gives me my local rule namespace.  I'm not
> fond of putting all of my custom rules into the same file with the same
> numbering.  And since I want upgrades to go smoothly, I also avoid
> editing the default rules files directly.
>
>> If this seems to weird an idea I may just set an ossec-rule repo on my
>> own Github account.
>
> Not weird.. It's an idea that has been kicked around a number of times
> in the past.  I thought there was a rules repo in existence that ddpbsd
> was running, but I could be misremembering..
>

That's correct. I lost the free time to mess with it though.

>> Any thoughts?
>
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