

Osquery treats your machines as a SQL database and subsequently provides SQL based query syntax to easily gather information out of it. Adding analytics and alerts on top of osquery logs will help in the easy setup of in-house EDR Solution.Īlternatively, osquery is an agent that will sit on your machines (Linux, Windows, Mac) and will transfer logs to your central server for security analytics and monitoring. Osquery is a perfect tool for HIDS once it is configured properly as it has the power to monitor thousands of machines simultaneously. This allows you to write SQL queries to explore operating system data. Osquery is an operating system instrumentation framework that exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. At the end of the article, you will come to know how easy it is to manage it-compliance, vulnerability management & incident response and to detect intrusions on machines using an open source solution without investing a penny on commercial solutions.

While walking through this article you will first learn about basics of Osquery and using it on Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS). How can we build an endpoint security solution for our machines deployed on Alibaba Cloud? Do you want to setup HIDS (Host Intrusion Detection System) for your organization? If you are looking for answers, then this article is for you. Tech Share is Alibaba Cloud's incentive program to encourage the sharing of technical knowledge and best practices within the cloud community. By Raushan Raj, Alibaba Cloud Tech Share Author.
