On 9/15/06, Jamie Bohr <jamiebohr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello All, Does any one use TARA? The company I work for uses TARA for Linux and SunOS and an internal tool for HP-UX. I will be starting a Senior capstone class for college soon and was wondering how useful would an update to TARA be to the Open Source community. I invision it as a client-server application where either the client or server can initiate a scan and the results go into a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL). From the DB risk acceptance filters can be applied and reports (Web & email) can be generated. The web interface could generate reports for each site or support region. This could be used by managment to see how security compliant a given region is. The DB could also have tables in it to support determining how patch compliant systems are. I would like the DB flexable enough to support other security concerns in the furture. I would like to hear your thoughts on how useful this would be before I spend a lot of time working on it. Of cource it also comes down to if the professor will accept it as a project. -- Jamie Bohr -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Hi Jamie Bohr! Well, I just ran it! I think I would spend some quality time researching what others have done as well. The system does several things I do like in a way that is good. I think it has some real possibilities. I would encourage the project!! In today's world most attacks from the outside are against the browser and helpers of the browser. Most attacks against computers in a corporate environment are from within!! I would like to see a virus scan (slow, continuous, and through), a checker of the locking screen saver being on (and other similar issues), a check for various root kits or key loggers, check for bots, and a check of the state and configuration of SELinux as well. I think it would be nice to run something like TARA random, but have parts of it running continuous with alarming capability. It might be nice to snap a picture of various log files (hal - messages - syslog) from time to time looking for particulars as we go. I will type back to you later after some research of my own. May you find an excellent placement of your skills! Tod
