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Beginner’s guide: OSSIM Part 2

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Hope all of you are keeping well. Thank you all for the overwhelming support you people are giving me. So today we’ll deal with everything from basic OSSIM configuration to integrating different types of assets. Before we jump in to all of that I hope all of you are ready with installation. If not please visit my previous post, which is actually the first part. Beginner’s guide: OSSIM (Open Source Security Information Management) part 1 Make sure you have an active internet connection for your OSSIM. As you all know the Alienvault platform has five modules in it, which are the Asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, threat detection, behavioural monitoring and security intelligence. In simple words we add assets first, and then we’ll configure all those assets under each and every module of Alienvault respectively. If you're ready with everything mentioned in part 1, we can now move forward with the configurations. Here we’re just considering only OSSIM not USM....

How to setup Kali Linux in VM

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Kali linux is one of the most commonly used penetration testing distros, which is one of the commonly user tiger boxes, among pentesters. It is mostly used tools for penetration testing, cyber forensics and malware analysis. I hope you've already downloaded you matching version of Kali Linux. If not please download from the following link  https://www.kali.org/downloads/ Before we start, it is always best do review on the basics of virtualization. Please go through the following link before proceeding http://pentesterblogs.blogspot.in/2016/07/pentest-lab.html   At the time when I'm writing this blog Kali Linux has stable release "rolling".

How to virtualize using vmware

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Today we’ll build or technically speaking “virtualize” our demo labs. Most of the intentionally vulnerable applications which we see in internet are in a specific format known as “ ova (open virtualization archive)” or “ ov f (open virtualization format)”, which you can directly import without any issues. Before we start building a virtual machine we need to know some essential basics. The real machine in which you’ve have installed virtualization software is called as host / physical machine. And the virtual machine running inside host machine is known as guest / virtual machines