Manage your fleet’s firewalls with osqueryWe’re releasing an extension for osquery that lets you manage the local firewalls of your fleet. Each of the three major operating systems provides a native firewall, capable of blocking incoming and outgoing access when configured. However, the interface for each of these three firewall systems are dissimilar and each requires different methods of configuration. […]
Manage Santa within osqueryWe’re releasing an extension for osquery that lets you manage Google Santa without the need for a separate sync server. Google Santa is an application whitelist and blacklist system for macOS ideal for deployment across managed fleets. It uses a sync server from which daemons pull rules onto managed computers. However, the sync server provides […]
Collect NTFS forensic information with osqueryWe’re releasing an extension for osquery that will let you dig deeper into the NTFS filesystem. It’s one more tool for incident response and data collection. But it’s also an opportunity to dispense with forensics toolkits and commercial services that offer similar capabilities. Until now, osquery has been inadequate for performing the kind of filesystem […]
How to prepare for a security reviewYou’ve just approved a security review of your codebase. Do you: Send a copy of the repository and wait for the report, or Take the extra effort to set the project up for success? By the end of the review, the difference between these answers will lead to profoundly disparate results. In the former case, […]
