Symbiot's OpenSIMS Debuts

Lord Grey writes "Business Wire is reporting that Symbiot has released a new project called OpenSIMS to the world. OpenSIMS is described as, "the world's first open source solution for security infrastructure management and collaborative risk metric exchange" and is licensed under the Apache Software Foundation's 2.0 license agreement. Symbiot has been on Slashdot before and been their product has been the subject of much heated debate."

Re:let the fun begin

[TheSpunkyEnigma]

No, I believe this is just the visualization stuff, I think you have to pay for the countermeasures.

Just how many non-geeks use software routers ?

[Sonic McTails]

I really don't see major corperations using software routers, due to the fact that hardware routers are simpler for most people, and they have the set it and forget it-thing expect when a new firmware comes around. Unless they have a hardware router solution I don't see here, it's pretty useless.

I'm gonna give it a try

[harikiri]

However, the opensims page doesn't really give much details on what it can do, just a lot of mumbo-jumbo I've come to expect from security vendors:

OpenSIMS is an open source project sponsored by Symbiot, Inc. which provides a way for tying together the open source tools used for security management into a common infrastructure. It leads toward having different networks use risk metrics to collaborate on attacker profiling and remediation

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^-- Which doesn't really tell me much at all. Based on the short flash demo, it looks like you can get realtime views of intrusion attempts. But beyond that, who knows?

The other issue I'm worried about is that I think i'll have to deal with the problems of it being designed for Linux - whilst my snort sensors have been deployed on Solaris. If anyone's tried installing standard linux-based software onto Solaris before, you'll know the problems I'm talking about. :(