Installing OSSEC on Centos 5.7

OSSEC is an open source host-based IDS that performs log analysis, andis able to correlate and analyse logs for a number of Linux (andWindows, but that is outside the scope of this blog post) servers. Thesoftware architecture of OSSEC and the use of agents, lends OSSEC toflexible deployment and management [1]. Set-up the Atomic repository that already has the appropriate OSSECpackages and install them would be the easiest way.

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