Open Source C++ SIEM Tools

Zeek has a long history in the open source and digital security worlds. Vern Paxson began developing the project in the 1990s under the name “Bro” as a means to understand what was happening on his university and national laboratory networks. Vern and the project’s leadership team renamed Bro to Zeek in late 2018 to celebrate its expansion and continued development. Zeek is not an active security device, like a firewall or intrusion prevention system. Rather, Zeek sits on a “sensor,” a hardware, software, virtual, or cloud platform that quietly and unobtrusively observes network traffic. Zeek interprets what it sees and creates compact, high-fidelity transaction logs, file content, and fully customized output, suitable for manual review on disk or in a more analyst-friendly tool like a security and information event management (SIEM) system.

A C++ file security filter driver example implemented with EaseFilter File Security Filter Driver SDK. EaseFilter Comprehensive File Security SDK is a set of file system filter driver software development kit which includes file monitor filter driver, file access control filter driver, transparent file encryption filter driver, process filter driver and registry filter driver. In a single solution, EaseFilter Comprehensive File Security SDK encompasses file security, digital rights management, encryption, file monitoring, file auditing, file tracking, data loss prevention, process monitoring and protection, and system configuration protection. EaseFilter file system filter driver is a kernel-mode component that runs as part of the Windows executive above the file system. The EaseFilter file system filter driver can intercept requests targeted at a file system or another file system filter driver.

The EaseFilter File Control SDK is a powerful development toolkit for creating robust, kernel-level file security and data protection solutions on the Windows platform. It includes a high-performance file system filter driver that intercepts and manages all file I/O operations in real time, giving developers deep, granular control far beyond what is possible with standard Windows APIs or Access Control Lists (ACLs). The EaseFilter Control Filter Driver provides a powerful method for intercepting file I/O operations at both the pre-operation and post-operation stages. This dual-layered interception enables comprehensive monitoring and enforcement of file access policies.

The EaseFilter Process Filter Driver SDK is a kernel-mode development kit designed to help developers monitor and control Windows process and thread activities. By intercepting process and thread operations at the kernel level, it enables the development of robust security applications that can prevent unauthorized or malicious processes from executing. With the Process Filter Driver, it allows you to prevent the untrusted executable binaries (malwares) from being launched, protect your data being damaged by the untrusted processes. It also enables your application to get the callback notification for the process/thread creation or termination, from the new process information you can get the parent process Id and thread Id of the new created process, you also can get the exact file name that is used to open the executable file and the command line that is used to execute the process if it is available.

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