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How To Monitor Your System Security with osquery on Ubuntu.

 


osquery is an open-source security tool that takes an operating system and turns it into one giant database, with tables that you can query using SQL-like statements. With these queries, you can monitor file integrity, check on the status and configuration of the firewall, perform security audits of the target server, and more.

It’s a cross-platform application with support for recent versions of macOS, Windows 10, CentOS, and Ubuntu. It’s offically described as an “SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics” framework, and originated from Facebook. read more about it here..

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